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US DOE — Flurry of Solar & Wind Power Announcements

December 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, heat pumps, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, lighting, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, Puerto Rico, recycling, Smart Grid, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy, wind energy technologies office (weto), wind turbines

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:58:00 +0000

As Joe Biden’s time leading the United States approaches an end, various government agencies have been sprinting to get things done before they are at risk of being dropped and forgotten. Rather than try to cover each of these separately, let’s quickly roll through some of the announcements, and you … [continued]

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How Big Can Offshore Wind Turbines Go? 25 MW And More, That’s How Big

November 16, 2024 admin arpa-e, clean energy innovation, clean power, deb haaland, disruptive innovation, Energy, energy innovation, national renewable energy lab (nrel), nrel, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, siemens gamesa, usa, wind energy, wind turbine blades, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:30:37 +0000

A new wave of supersized, morphing wind turbines will help cut costs for the US offshore wind industry, if it can survive the next four years.

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The Wild Wind Turbines Of Wyoming Are Coming For Your Fossil Fuels

October 24, 2024 admin aerodynamics, airloom energy, clean power, green economy, investment, onshore wind farms, united states department of defense, us department of energy (doe), wind energy, wind turbine technology, wind turbines, Wyoming, wyoming wind power

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:15:27 +0000

Wind turbines that resemble model airplanes will run around an oval track in Wyoming to generate electricity, in a pilot project supported by private, state, and federal investors.

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Small Wind Power Projects Expanding into New Markets

September 28, 2024 admin alaska, clean power, green economy, onshore wind farms, pacific northwest national laboratory (pnnl), pnnl, research, us department of agriculture (usda), us department of energy (doe), usda, wind energy, wind energy technologies office, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:54:20 +0000

The distributed wind market is growing both in size and variety, according to a new PNNL-led report An electric vehicle manufacturer, two schools and two Alaskan villages: these are just some of the organizations using wind turbines to help meet their energy needs. For the last eight months, researchers from … [continued]

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NREL Advances Method for Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades

August 28, 2024 admin clean power, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, recycling, research, SCIENCE, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:10:22 +0000

Resin Made From Biomass Enables Chemical Recycling at End of Useful Lifespan Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ending the practice of old … [continued]

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Pennsylvania Catches Wind Farm Repowering Fever

August 26, 2024 admin clean power, green economy, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment, Manufacturing, onshore wind farms, Pennsylvania, policy & politics, repowering, usa, vestas, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:17:27 +0000

The wind repowering movement is enabling states like Pennsylvania to maximize less-than-optimal wind resources and squeeze more energy from aging wind farms.

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China’s Mingyang Will Install Wind Turbines in Brazil

August 16, 2024 admin Brazil, China, latin america, mingyang, news, power, Renewables, Wind, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:49:43 +0000

A major China-based wind turbine manufacturer confirmed it has an agreement with a Brazilian energy company to install its equipment for the first time in Latin America. Mingyang, the largest […]

The post China’s Mingyang Will Install Wind Turbines in Brazil appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Flipping the Script On Traditional Wind Turbine Technologies

August 6, 2024 admin clean power, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, research, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:25:12 +0000

NREL Wind Researchers Undertake Sweeping Validation Study of a Downwind Turbine Most wind turbines face the wind—and there is a good reason for that. Since the 1980s, wind turbine developers have been using what is called the “Danish concept” for their designs—three blades, positioned upwind (i.e., facing the wind), that … [continued]

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Panels, Presentations, & Posters: NREL Plays Key Role at Premier Wind Energy Conference

July 31, 2024 admin clean power, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, onshore wind farms, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:14:57 +0000

NREL’s Wind Expertise Highlighted at Biannual TORQUE Conference In May 2024, amidst ancient marble statues and sweeping centuries-old frescoes, a group of researchers came together to talk about something decidedly more modern: wind energy technologies. The biannual TORQUE Conference, organized by the European Academy of Wind Energy and held this year … [continued]

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New Report: Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion For Knocking Cheaper Midwest Wind Offline

July 27, 2024 admin clean power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, grid, midcontinent independent system operator (miso), MISO, nrdc, onshore wind farms, research, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:03:34 +0000

New Report Shows Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion for Running While Wind Was Available, Cheaper in MISO Territory Adding to a growing field of research, the new report, The Consumer and Environmental Costs from Uneconomically Dispatching Coal Plants in MISO, reveals new details about the impact of aging, uncompetitive coal plants … [continued]

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