Are wind turbines bad for your health?

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Excerpt: Many view wind turbines as a great way to produce clean energy. However, some think that wind farms adversely affect the health of those living nearby them. These concerns include effects of infrasound, electromagnetic radiation, shadow flicker, and blade glint. But are they relevant? The Australian …

Wind developer prefers sodar

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Excerpt: Spain’s renewable energy economy is flourishing, with some regions generating as much as 82% of their power from renewable resources. Barlovento Recursos Naturales, a Spain-based international wind consultancy, has helped the country step forward in wind energy especially, using Second Wind’s re …

Ground broken for monster Mojave wind energy project

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Excerpt: Renewable energy developers broke ground Tuesday for a major expansion of wind-power generation in the Mojave Desert, north of Los Angeles. The Alta Wind Energy Center is planned as the world's largest wind project, with nearly 600 turbines capable of producing 1,550MW of electricity when comple …

Turbines power town hall

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Excerpt: Five Windspire wind-and-solar hybrid turbines were installed in August 2010 on a hill behind the township hall in Genoa, Michigan. The 30-ft tall turbines are each rated for 1.2 kW, a total of 6 kW. System experts expect its 9.5 kW total output to provide about 20% of the hall’s electrical needs. …

Top 10 best practices for avoiding construction change orders

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Excerpt: Although change orders are not always a bad thing, site developers and construction companies have formulated a few guidelines for minimizing them. By: Paul Dvorak/Editor Contract change orders are so ubiquitous in some industries that if you Google the term, spaghetti-like flow chart …

Eleven wind parks combined into one project

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Excerpt: Eleven wind parks in the Idaho Wind Partner Project will have the capacity to generate 183 MW. GE Energy Financial Services, Atlantic Power, and Exergy will own a non-managing member equity interests in the project. Reunion Power will hold a managing member equity interest and will act as the manage …

U of Delaware get state’s first community wind project

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Excerpt: A NY state-based community wind company has completed its largest project to date, a 2 MW wind turbine at the University of Delaware’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes.  The  project, assisted by Sustainable Energy Developments Inc (SED), in Ontario, NY, created the first community wind turbine …

Air crane lifts turbines to mountain sites

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Excerpt: The European office of Erickson Air-Crane has teamed-up with Vestas Wind Systems A/S of Denmark to construct twelve new V90-3.0 3 MW wind turbine generators on ridge tops near the mountain village of Ricigliano, Italy. The S-64F air crane flew with a 400 ft (125 m) line to deliver 36 blades – …

Cranes for lifting, drives for yawing, and more

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Excerpt: Liebherr will display a selection of high performance components for wind-power systems in the East Wing of the convention center, Booths 10450 and 10549. Visitors will also see Liebherr gear-tooth milling and shaping machines for producing transmission and gear systems in the wind power sec …

Wind and solar prospecting tools

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Excerpt: A program and database called Wind and Solar Prospecting Tools provides immediate access to seasonal variability data critical to understanding a site’s energy potential. The software, from 3Tier, Seattle, provides quick and unlimited access to seasonal data for wind and solar resources around the …