National Wind Assessments, a team of independent wind consultants, has adopted Second Wind’s Triton Sonic Wind Profiler to add value to its wind resource assessment offerings.
One of the world’s leading wind energy consultants is expanding its service portfolio with Second Wind Triton™ Sonic Wind Profiler following a year of deploying the sodar units with its clients. DNV-Global Energy Concepts (DNV-GEC) has been named by Second Wind as a Certified Triton Partner. The companies will work together to deliver Certified Triton installation, commissioning and relocation as well as planning, monitoring, analysis, reporting, and consulting services.
REpower Systems AG has erected the first of a total of six REpower 5M turbines for the alpha ventus offshore test field. The systems each have a rated power of five megawatts (MW), with a blade tip height of 155 meters above sea level.
The world’s largest single political jurisdiction to date, India, has made a strategic move to use a comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs to develop its renewable energy potential.
U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, today introduced the Kerry-Boxer legislation to create clean energy jobs, reduce pollution, and protect American security by enhancing domestic energy production and combating global climate change.
In 2002, California passed AB1207, a measure that set statewide zoning and permitting guidelines for small wind turbines. The result was significant growth for the fledgling small wind industry that year and expectations for continued growth.
The United States is viewed as one of the next big markets for offshore wind generation. Now that the Cape Wind project is considered more likely than not to proceed and the favorable political climate towards renewables, it is not a question of whether U.S. offshore wind farms will get built but how many.
This is the age of Solar. It’s hard when you’re living in it to tell exactly how history will remember your time and place, but it seems ever more obvious that our current Digital Age will be followed by a Renewable Revolution.
But let us not think that we’re the beginning. The Sun was [...]
Wind Energy is a often termed as the result of solar energy, when it receives response on earth. When the solar rays hit the earth, it falls on different regions and locations that have different temperatures. The different locations that are land and water, absorbs or reflects amount of solar heat, responding to it, it results in different temperatures and the earth to balance the atmosphere makes the warm air goes up and the cooler air settles down, this in between creates wind.
Thus the wind is the result of the motion of air in the environment, so it possess the kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is very useful and so wind is also used in different purposes in today’s life so as to fulfill a lot of requirements. Wind turbines is one of the basic equipment that uses wind to create energy. Its main function is to convert the kinetic energy of the wind into the mechanical energy or electrical energy. Both of these energies are of extreme use in our daily lives and wind turbines helps in yielding it in abundance. mechanical energy is usually found in rural areas for water pumping and other local works, where as electricity is generated to schools, homes and business places.
There are two kinds of wind turbines, the horizontal-axis and the vertical-axis turbines. The first kind of turbines are common these days and creates electricity at large scale covering major part of the market. Turbine usually possess a ‘rotor’ that converts the wind into rotational shaft energy, a nacelle that usually contains drive train that has gear box; and a generator, a tower to handle the rotor and the drive train, and the inner and outer equipment to control the cables and interconnection. Most of the wind turbines do not possess gearbox.
Wind turbines comes in different sizes, the electricity created is flowed in the power lines where it collects with electricity from other power plants and then reaches the customers’ points. Today the average capacity of turbines with 5,000 kilowatts are tested.
Today’s solar power systems offer a bundle of energy advantages for the home. They reduces the home’s impact on the environment, enable individual energy independence and guarantee savings on energy bills. Fortunately for you, home solar power systems have never been more subsidized. While usually requiring a decent sum of cash up front, within a [...]
