The wind industry gets little credit for its great effort to protect wildlife of all kinds, probably because the effort goes under reported. That work includes the radar detection of approaching birds, controls that change a turbine’s start and stop times, and more. Paul Dvorak, Editor The American Wind Energy Association acknowledges that eagle fatalities…
University launches 2-MW turbine
SED and University of Delaware found Gamesa agreeable to supplying a single turbine for university campus.
NREL teams up with University of Delaware for Offshore Wind Research
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Delaware (UD) will establish a test site for commercial wind turbines off the Delaware coast. Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement of $500,000 over the next five years, UD will work with federal and state agencies meet criteria for establishing…