Vestas wind park in the US. Image: Courtesy of Vestas Wind Systems A/S US utility Xcel Energy Inc (NYSE:XEL) has contracted Mortenson to build the 600-MW Rush Creek wind farm in Colorado, the family-owned construction and real estate firm announced on Wednesday. Mortenson's Wind Energy, ...
Colorado is the 11th windiest state and has more than 250 sunny days per year. The objectives of this research are to: 1) determine which landcover classes are affiliated with high wind and solar potential; and 2) identify areas that are suitable for wind and solar farms using multicriteria...
In this study, wind-farm observations, including turbine nacelle wind and power measurements along with nearby meteorological tower observations from seven wind farms in Colorado, Texas and Minnesota are analyzed to study the statistical properties of the microscale flows in these wind farms.Yuewei Liu...
Construction of the Rush Creek wind project, the biggest single-phase wind generating facility in North America, is expected to commence in May 2017. To be located in Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties in Colorado, US, the project will comprise two wind farms owned and operated...
The large death toll at wind farms shows how the renewable energy rush comes with its own environmental consequences, trade-offs the Obama administration is willing to make in the name of cleaner energy. "It is the rationale that we have to get off of carbon, we have to get off of fossi...
The company develops, manufactures, and offers maintenance for wind farms of all sizes. It has turbine production facilities all over Europe in Denmark, Spain, Germany, and Italy, in both China and India, in Brazil, and in Colorado in the U.S. ...
Seven wind turbines will be installed in the municipalities of Carballo, A Laracha and Arteixo on an area of 15.5 km (9.6 miles) under the EUR 2.1 million (USD 2.8m) project. Now, however, finding financing for the wind farm will be the main challenge to the local authorities. ...
While wind power benefits the climate, environmentalists are split over its costs to wildlife. In Wyoming, wind farms pose a risk to golden eagles and sage grouse, a chicken-sized, ground-dwelling bird that tends to avoid high structures that can provide perching spots for predatory birds, sa...
Onshore wind farms are using aircraft detection lighting systems that operate on demand to reduce light pollution. Danish energy giant Ørsted recently started operations at its Sunflower Wind Farm in Kansas, incorporating an aircraft detection lighting system (ADLS) designed to control the duration...
Usda's Vick Tells Radio Audience Wind Farms Mean Huge Water Savings Since most of the electricity in the U.S. is generated using coal and natural gas as fuel, almost every wind farm announcement includes the estimated amoun... B Vick 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Minnesota's Biomass Mandate: An ...