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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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 […]
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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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:40:41 +0000
We are pleased to announce that we have just released a new dataset of decommissioned wind turbines that have been confirmed as dismantled. The decommissioned turbine dataset can be downloaded in Excel format from the LBNL webpage here. Variable definitions and related information are available in the USWTDB codebook, available at … [continued]
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