Texas’ Windthorst-1 ready for next phase

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Excerpt: A family owned Texas wind development company and a New York community wind developer have completed their portion of work on a 51-MW wind-power project in Windthorst, Texas. OwnEnergy Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y. (ownenergy.net) and Horn Wind (hornwind.com) located outside of Dallas, developed the …

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 …

Communities to own utililty-sized wind projects

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Excerpt: Erin Edholm National Wind Minneapolis Traditional wind plant developers often say their work benefits landowners by providing them with royalty or lease payments. While such an arrangement does provide some benefit to the community, the business model makes little provision for ownership or …

Myths and facts in community wind projects

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Excerpt: Community-wind developers often encounter some opposition when developing projects. It may surface as misinformed, for example, insisting that the turbines kill birds and wind farms depress land values, among other things. They are not true but the charges deserve more detailed explanati …

The plus side of large two-blade turbines

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Excerpt: Staffan Engström/Consultant Agir Konsult AB/Nordic Windpower/ Taby, Sweden A dampened pivot hub, modular drive train, and regulated tip speeds give two-bladed, utility-scale wind turbines a few advantages over three-blade designs. For a wind turbine to output a particular power, it …

Communities to own utililty-sized wind projects

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Excerpt: Traditional wind plant developers often say their work benefits landowners by providing them with royalty or lease payments. While such an arrangement does provide some benefit to the community, the business model makes little provision for ownership or local participation. One community-based …

Communities to own utility-sized wind projects

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Excerpt: Traditional wind plant developers often say  their work benefits landowners by providing  them with royalty or lease payments. While such an arrangement does provide some benefit to the community, the business model makes little provision for ownership or local participation. One community-base …

NREL and Great Lakes Wind target midsized turbine designers and manufacturers

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Excerpt: The DOE and NREL have launched the Midsize Wind Turbine Development Project to help close a technology gap and facilitate development and commercialization of midsize wind turbines. The Laboratory is sponsoring workshops in Ohio and Oklahoma, facilitated by Cleveland-based Great Lakes Wind Network, …

Community wind shapes a growing trend

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Excerpt: An emerging group of wind-farm developers are focusing on midsized project farms and in places utility companies are overlooking. These community-wind projects, ranging from five to 80 MW, are cropping up in part due to recent financial incentives and guidance from firms such as OwnEnergy Inc, Brook …

A powerful idea: Wind turbines in the city

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Excerpt: Not all wind farms have to be located far from power purchasers. A recent ribbon-cutting for a 120 kW turbine was right in Cleveland, Ohio, where the turbine is visible to thousands driving by on I-480 and Pearl Rd. Electrical Design Consultants President David Graneto, Pepper Pike, Ohio, says p …