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Wind energy development in China: institutional dynamics and policy incentives
China is endowed with rich wind resources. During the early 1990s, China's wind power capacity grew at an average annual rate of 50%. Total installed wind farm capacity reached 344.8 MW by 2000. However, the pace of wind power development has slowed down in recent years. Through economic analysis and identification of the institutional barriers that led to the rise and fall of wind energy ...
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Forecasting Exercise - Case Study
Objective: In 2005, AEE promoted a project related to the prediction of wind farm energy production, known as the Prediction Exercise. The project was financed by AEE and by companies that own the parks, as well as by a subsidy from the PROFIT programme of the Ministry of Education and Science. The Prediction Exercise consisted of a comparative Round Robin of ...
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Prospects of wind energy in India
This paper is a modest attempt to study the growth and performance of wind farms in India. India occupies the 5th place in the world in wind energy generation after Germany, the USA, Denmark and Spain, and has an installed capacity of more than 2485 MW of wind energy, comprising both commercial projects (2418 MW) and demonstration projects (65.415 MW) as of 31 March 2004. This paper discusses the ...
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Climate change drives wind turbines in China: case study of market based wind power development
This paper aims at quantifying the impact of government policy and clean development mechanism (CDM) on wind power development in China. Firstly we review the background of Chinese wind power development and policy, as well as literature of climate change and CDM. We then present methodology, scenarios and data of a case study for the development of a large-scale grid-connected wind farm. We ...
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Offshore Wind Development Picking Up Pace
Wind power is the world’s leading source of renewable electricity, excluding hydropower, with 238,000 megawatts of capacity installed at the start of 2012. Thus far, almost all of this wind power has been tapped on land; worldwide just 4,600 megawatts of offshore wind farms were operating as of mid-2012. Offshore wind capacity is growing quickly, however, expanding nearly six-fold ...
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A review of wind energy developments in India
Climate change, dwindling reserves of fossil fuels and shortage of electricity have prompted the government to give an impetus to renewable energy sources. Wind energy, with an average growth rate of 30%, is the fastest growing source of renewable energy in the world. India has a potential capacity of over 45,000 MW out of which 1869 MW has been extracted from this eco-friendly source. India ...
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Coonooer Bridge Wind Farm - Case Study
255,672 MWh: Low Emission Contribution 20MW: Generation Capacity 6: Turbines installed A$50M: Project Cost The Coonooer Bridge Wind Farm is a small wind energy project located 90 km north-west of Bendigo, Victoria. The site represents the competitive advantage presented by Windlab’s unique technology. Other wind developers have searched for projects in that part of the ...
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Experience curves for wind power
The objective of this study was to improve the understanding of the use of different experience curves in energy analysis. The study was based on the application of experience curves to wind power systems, but the approach is generic and can be used in other energy technologies. In the study, experience curves for wind power were developed, and it has been demonstrated that different types of ...
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Unexpected Benefits of RNRG’s Global Reach
It always amazes me when I think about how this small company in Vermont, U.S.A., has been supplying products to over 160 countries for almost 35 years. While this is an impressive statistic, it is only important if it means something to our customers. For example, why would a wind developer in India care if we are sending our data loggers to Japan? While it may not seem obvious on the surface, ...
By NRG Systems
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Iowa and South Dakota Approach 25 Percent Electricity from Wind in 2012: Unprecedented Contribution of Wind Power in U.S. Midwest
Defying conventional wisdom about the limits of wind power, in 2012 both Iowa and South Dakota generated close to one quarter of their electricity from wind farms. Wind power accounted for at least 10 percent of electricity generation in seven other states. Across the United States, wind power continues to strengthen its case as a serious energy source. The United States now has 60,000 ...
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Impacts of wind power on PJM market development
Recently, there has been a substantial growth in wind energy in the USA. An increasing number of states are experiencing market design, planning and investment in wind energy with this growth. Currently, wind installations exist in more than half of the states. This paper explores the market factors that have been driven and affected by large-scale wind energy development in the USA, particularly ...
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Vortex identification in wind resource assessment: Application of a new vortex criterion for an improved wind resource analysis
A pertinent task during wind power project development studies is the post-processing analysis of the wind resource simulation results. There is widespread interest in extracting more information from typical commercial software – like WindSim, OpenWind, Meteodyn, WAsP – at a minimal cost during the prospection and/or the development stage of some wind power project. The current paper ...
By VIE Brazil
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Influence of government policy on the promotion of wind power
This paper analyses the influence of government policy on the promotion of wind power in different countries in Europe with focus on the development in Denmark. It is concluded that government policy has had a decisive effect on wind power implementation in the first phase of the modern wind power development. The modern Danish wind energy project was initiated in the early 1970s and was ...
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Prospect of offshore wind energy development in Japan
In Japan, the cumulative capacity of wind turbine generation systems on land has increased steadily in recent years. To install a large number of wind turbines has inherent problems such as shortage of suitable land, and inadequate infrastructure such as power cables and roads. The necessity for development of offshore wind turbine generation systems has been recognised based on the above ...
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Innovation risk slows offshore wind foundation development
As offshore wind technology develops ever more gigantic machines further from shore into deeper waters, it is common wisdom that new foundation technologies are needed. But are they? Monopile, and some jacket foundations, still dominate the offshore wind market in commercial operation. Prototype floating foundations are performing well in demo or pilot projects, but scaling up is only just ...
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Social representations of intermittency and the shaping of public support for wind energy in the UK
The practicality of UK renewable energy policy, given the potential impacts of intermittency, has been contested by expert institutions. At the same time, wind energy developments have engendered local controversy and civic campaign groups have emerged at local, regional and national levels. This research integrates these strands in exploring how intermittency is communicated to the public by ...
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Sempra Generation invests in 250 MW Colorado wind farm
Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (San Diego, CA), has made an investment in the Cedar Creek II Wind Farm in Colorado that will make Sempra an equal partner with BP Wind Energy in the development of the project. The Cedar Creek II project is a 250 MW facility located near New Raymer, in the high prairie about 90 miles northeast of Fort Collins. The project’s entire power ...
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Analysing the wind turbine innovation systems in The Netherlands and Denmark using the cyclic innovation model
This paper analyses the development of wind power in The Netherlands and Denmark in the period 1973-2000 with the cyclic innovation model (CIM). CIM regards innovation as a cyclic process in which different actors constantly develop and exchange knowledge through four different types of cycles: hard science cycle, soft science cycle, integrated engineering cycle, and differentiated valorisation ...
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Windbarriers - Case Study
Objective: The WINDBARRIERS project developed a methodology to analyse and overcome the administrative and grid connection barriers that hinder the development of wind energy in countries in the European Union. In 2009, the average administrative processing time of an onshore wind farm in Europe was 42 months and involved on average direct contact with nine different national, regional and ...
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Vortex identification for the study of atmospheric flow: a new vortex criterion applied to wind resource assessment
Vortex identification is a non-consensual point of discussion among fluid mechanics researchers. Classical criteria such as Q and delta are hereby confronted with a new definition. A pertinent task for wind power project development studies is the post-processing analysis of the wind resource simulations in order to improve the project design. There is a large interest in extracting more ...
By VIE Brazil
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