Floating, deep-water wind farms inch closer to reality

The tantalizing prospect of deep-water wind farms, using vast, floating turbines, is coming closer to reality. Until now, commercial offshore farms have all featured "bottom-mounted" turbines in depths below 50 meters. This has allowed the UK, with its shallow coastal waters, to install 538 offshore turbines totaling 1,708 megawatts (MW) -- equal to the rest of…

ByThe Global ViewJune 6, 20120Comments

Energy

Which countries produce the most wind energy?

The world was producing nearly 238 gigawatts (GW) of wind energy as of the end of 2011, with the fastest development of new capacity taking place in China and India. That total comes to about 3 percent of the world's current electricity consumption, according to the World Wind Energy Association. Together, China and India accounted for more…

ByThe Global ViewMay 21, 20122Comments

Energy

LEGO wind turbines to sprout in North Sea

LEGO is helping a new crop of wind turbines sprout up in the North Sea off of Germany's coast. No, not plastic building-block turbines like the ones the Danish toy company once put out in a partnership with turbine-maker Vestas. But giant, honest-to-gosh, 3.6-megawatt wind turbines from Siemens ... 77 in all, in fact. So what…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 2, 20120Comments

Energy

For nuke-nixing Germany and Siemens, it’s full-steam ahead with wind

Nuke-rejecting Germany plans to expand its renewable energy base even further with a new offshore power wind-energy plant featuring 80 massive turbines with rotors 120 meters (394 feet) across. Siemens Energy plans to supply the 3.6-megawatt (MW) for the Amrumbank West project in the North Sea. Being developed by Amrumbank West GmbH, a subsidiary of E.ON…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 15, 20110Comments

Energy

New ventures to put China’s wind energy on steroids

After several years of courtship, Siemens and Shanghai Electric are tying the knot and looking to raise a giant offspring together: the fast-growing Chinese wind-energy market. The companies have come together in two new joint ventures: one focused on wind turbine research, development and production, the other to specialize in sales, marketing, project management and other…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 12, 20110Comments

Investment

GE teams with firm planning 1,000 MW of new wind power in India

GE is joining forces with a company planning to develop one gigawatt -- that's 1,000 megawatts -- of wind-energy projects across India. GE Energy Financial Services and India-based Greenko Group both plan to invest in a new venture to increase wind power across India. GE will invest $50 million -- its first renewable energy investment in…

ByThe Global ViewOctober 10, 20110Comments

Smart Cities

Made-in-Canada wind energy: Small but growing

Canada is now generating more than 4,600 megawatts of electricity from wind power, enough to power more than one million homes ... which sounds like quite a bit until you realize that's just 2 percent of the nation's total electricity demand. Not that the country is a slouch in renewable energy development. It currently gets about…

ByThe Global ViewOctober 4, 20110Comments

Smart Cities

GE turbines to add 300MW of new wind power in Illinois

Two wind farms under development in northeast Illinois are expected to add another 300 megawatts of clean-energy capacity to the state, which is fast becoming a leading wind power in the US. The Settlers Trail Wind Farm in Iroquois County and the Pioneer Trail Wind Farm in Iroquois and Ford counties are being developed by E.ON…

ByThe Global ViewSeptember 6, 20110Comments

Smart Cities

How to build a better wind turbine? GE finds inspiration in MRIs

GE is using MRI -- magnetic resonance imaging -- technology to research ways to dramatically boost the energy-generating capabilities of wind turbines. Part of a two-year, $3-million project from the US Department of Energy (DOE), the effort is aimed at developing a wind turbine generator that could support large-scale generation in the 10-megawatt (MW) to 15-megawatt…

ByThe Global ViewSeptember 5, 20110Comments

Smart Cities

US Energy Dept. finalizes $102m loan for Maine wind farm

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has finalized a $102-million loan guarantee to Record Hill Wind LLC, which plans to develop a 50.6-megawatt wind power plant and an eight-mile-long transmission line with grid interconnections near the town of Roxbury in Maine. The project, to be developed and managed by Wagner Wind Energy I of New Hampshire…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 15, 20110Comments

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Floating, deep-water wind farms inch closer to reality

Which countries produce the most wind energy?

LEGO wind turbines to sprout in North Sea

For nuke-nixing Germany and Siemens, it’s full-steam ahead with wind

New ventures to put China’s wind energy on steroids

GE teams with firm planning 1,000 MW of new wind power in India

Made-in-Canada wind energy: Small but growing

GE turbines to add 300MW of new wind power in Illinois

How to build a better wind turbine? GE finds inspiration in MRIs

US Energy Dept. finalizes $102m loan for Maine wind farm

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