wind farm site Articles
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Collgar Wind Farm - Case Study
4,925,563 MWh: Low Emission Contribution 206MW: Generation Capacity A$750M: Project Cost 111: Turbines Installed Windlab identified the site in 2006 from a WindScape high resolution map of the state, coupled with its Virtual Wind Farm technology. Collgar is a world leading wind farm site located on accessible wheat belt land with uncontested high quality grid access. The project was ...
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Coopers Gap Wind Farm - Case Study
A$850M: Project Cost 1,510,000MWh: Expected low Emission Contribution 123: Turbines installed 453MW: Generation capacity Coopers Gap Wind Farm is a 453MW wind energy project to be located at Cooranga North, approximately 180kms north-west of Brisbane, Queensland. Upon completion in 2019, it will be Australia’s largest wind farm. The site was identified by Windlab’s WindScape ...
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How Much Protection Do Heritage Sites Have From Wind Turbines
A heritage site is a location that is important to the cultural or historical heritage of a town, city or country. Wind turbines are large devices used to generate renewable energy. Both equally important, but when pitted against each other lawyers have decided that heritage sites are more important than renewable energy. The matter was brought to light in January, when a wind farm company ...
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Optimizing Wind and Solar Power in Africa
Editor's Note: The following is a news release authored by Julie Chao and issued by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on April 5, 2017 To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by 2030. While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...
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As Europe extends turbine lifespans, data becomes crucial
Ageing wind assets, growing corporate demand and limited appetite for full repowering are favoring lifetime extension projects, increasing the importance of performance analysis. European lifetime extension (LTE) activity is set to hike in the coming years as feed-in tariffs expire and wind operators seek to maximize revenues from ageing assets. Around 4 GW/year of European wind turbine ...
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Fulcrum3D Sodar - Clarke Creek Wind Farm - Case Study
Fulcrum3D treats all information regarding monitoring sites in the strictest of confidence. Below is a case study from monitoring sites that we are at liberty to discuss with express permission from our clients. Clarke Creek Wind Farm Lacour Energy is an Australian renewable energy development company focused on developing premium wind and solar projects across Australia. Goldwind Australia ...
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Estimation of capacity credit for wind power in Libya
This paper presents the results of a study that evaluated the wind potential at the central region of the Libyan coast and estimated the capacity credit of wind power in the national network. Several sites were investigated to choose the most suitable sites for wind farm establishment. Different sizes of Wind Energy Converter Systems (WECSs) were selected to estimate the wind potential. The sizes ...
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10 Facts you didn’t know about Wind Energy
The oldest rotary windmills are considered to have been used regularly in agriculture and other purposes since 2000 B.C. by peoples of what would today be China and the Middle East who already sensed what the German physicist Albert Betz, the father of physics governing modern wind turbines, called The Theory of Wind Energy, presented and published in his book “Wind-Energie” at the ...
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Wind farms benefting the region
Wind farms as close as Benton and White counties—and others around the world—are boosting Tippecanoe County’s economy by at least $20 million a year, reports Jody Hamilton, director of economic development for Greater Lafayette Commerce. “From land title searches to construction labor and turbine components, businesses in Greater Lafayette are enjoying new revenues, and that figure doesn’t ...
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Building New Industries and Creating New Jobs in a Plan B Economy
Building a new economy, one that can sustain economic progress, involves phasing out old industries, restructuring existing ones, and creating new ones. This new economy will be powered by renewable sources of energy, will have a more diverse transport system--relying more on rail, buses, and bicycles, and less on cars--and will recycle everything. For example, coal use will be phased out, ...
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UK offshore load factors accelerate on tech breakthroughs: 10-year study
UK offshore load factors accelerate on tech breakthroughs: 10-year study The Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Operational report 2015 shows there has been a gradual increase in the load factor for the UK fleet since 2004 on the back of more productive wind turbines, wind farms being built at windier sites and improved plant availability. The Crown Estate manages UK sovereign assets such as ...
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Measuring Offshore Wind Resources
To select the right offshore wind site, estimate the future energy output of a wind farm, and determine the best layout for the turbines, project developers must conduct wind resource assessment (WRA) campaigns on site. This is a critical phase of the successful development of wind farms. WRA campaigns on terrestrial sites have traditionally been performed using meteorological towers equipped ...
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