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World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, Online by 2012
On Tuesday, May 12, the green light was given to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary of Great Britain. The Thames Estuary is the area in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea. The first phase of the 90 square mile London Array will see 175 turbines producing 630 megawatts (MW) of electricity 12 miles off the coast of Kent. (more…)
New Zealand is in a very windy region of the world, particularly around Cook Strait!
A $440 million wind farm with future capacity to power Wellington was connected to New Zealand’s electricity grid yesterday.
Twenty 111m-high turbines at Meridian’s West Wind project in the hills of Makara began spinning to generate enough energy for 17,000 homes.
By the end of this year it will use 62 turbines, which have 40m-long blades, to generate enough power (more…)
I found this at EcoGeek and found it to be another interesting idea.
FloDesign, a Massachusetts based engineering firm, has designed a new wind turbine
that deviates from the standard windmill in a compelling way. Its main feature is a
stationary piece in front that directs wind into the spinning blades. Overall, the
machine looks more like a jet engine than a wind turbine and it packs quite a punch
as well – a FloDesign turbine can generate as much power as a conventional turbine (more…)
Looks like T. Boone and Walmart are in the lets make a deal phase. Walmart
has announced it would buy 15 percent of the electricity for its Texas
facilities from Duke Energy wind farm. That 15 percent equates to 226
million kilowatt hours or 18,000 homes could be powered for a year.
Walmart is buying the power and accompanying renewable energy credits
beginning in April from a Duke Energy wind farm in Notrees, Texas. The power
will supply WalMart’s 360 facilities within the competitive Texas grid. (more…)
T. Boone Pickens is delaying his plans to build the world’s largest wind farm, according
to The Arizona Republic, which cited his remarks at a conference on Tuesday in Phoenix.
The Texas oilman, who has created a stir by his endorsement of wind power as part of a
national strategy to reduce dependence on foreign oil, cited the fall in natural gas
prices, a competing source of electricity generation, as a deterrent.
Pickens has leased hundreds of thousands of acres for a giant wind farm in West Texas,
where he plans to erect 2,700 turbines and produce energy for urban areas such as Dallas
and Fort Worth. (more…)
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