Guide for installing in stormy seas

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Excerpt: A new guide for building and classing offshore wind turbine installations is out. Classification society ABS says its the first guide to address design considerations for the bottom founded support structure of a turbine situated in tropical storm prone areas on the Outer Continental Shelf. Previ …

The Trickle-Down Effect Of Cape Wind

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Excerpt: In an article in the Worcester Business Journal, Mark Rodgers, communications director at Cape Wind, wrote that 2010 will be remembered as the year that Massachusetts became the first in the nation to move forward with offshore wind power. Attaining first mover advantage in offshore wind will give …

Windymotocross

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Excerpt: Here Enterprises Inc., a developer of wind energy, has acquired its first wind energy development project: the acquisition of Cycle Ranch, Inc. of Texas. Here Enterprises is working to develop a wind farm on the Cycle Ranch site in conjunction with its operating commercial motocross speedway busines …

258 turbines planned for Iowa wind projects

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Excerpt: One manufacturer of wind turbines has received its largest onshore wind turbine order to date. Siemens will provide 258 SWT-2.3, 101 units, which will be installed at three MidAmerican Energy Company wind projects in Iowa for a combined capacity of 593 MW. The scope of the MidAmerican Energy orde …

40-MW for Vermont

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Excerpt: A 40-MW project is slated for Vermont. Developer First Wind has obtained $76 million in financing for the company’s Sheffield Wind project. With financing in place, the project will continue on schedule with construction, which began in September 2010. Located in the Town of Sheffield in th …

120-MW planned for Tehachapi, CA

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Excerpt: A wind project is planned for the Tehachapi in southern California. The Windstar wind project  will be developed Western Wind Energy Corp ("Western Wind Energy") and consist of 120 MW of Gamesa G8X Series wind turbines. Gamesa is to supply a total of 60 wind turbine generators from its G8X-2.0 M …

Turbines in really deep water

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Excerpt: Deepwater Wind, a company based in Providence, Rhode Island, has drawn up plans for what could be the largest wind farm in U.S. waters, the company announced last week. The proposed farm would generate a huge 1,000 MW of power and would be located 18 to 27 miles off the coast of Rhode Island and Mas …

Vestas on a roll – 50 MW more for Nuevo Mexico

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Excerpt: Vestas has received a 50.4 MW order for 28 V100-1.8 MW wind turbines from Element Power for the first phase of the 99 MW Macho Springs Wind Energy Project in Luna County, New Mexico. The contract includes delivery and commissioning along with a 10-year turbine service and maintenance agreement. …

DOE supports world’s largest wind project with $1.3B

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Excerpt: A partial loan guarantee for a $1.3 billion loan has been finalized to support the world's largest wind farm. The loan will finance the Caithness Shepherds Flat project, an 845-MW wind generation facility located in eastern Oregon sponsored by Caithness Energy, LLC and GE Energy Financial Services. …

Wind. What is it good in? Absolutely farming!

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Excerpt: Researchers at the Ames Laboratory and the University of Colorado find that wind turbines help channel beneficial breezes over nearby plants. Wind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might al …