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Steering Wind Turbines to Extract More Power

As wind passes through a turbine, it creates a wake that decreases the downstream average wind velocity.

30 Jun 2021

Building Better Wind Farms for Maximum Power Generation

Location, location, location--when it comes to the placement of wind turbines, the old real estate adage applies, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegie's Enrico Antonini and Ken Caldeira.

29 Jun 2021

Earth Wind & Power: Excess Energy from Wind, Solar and Gas will be Utilized for HPC and Datacenters

With this new practice EWP creates a long-awaited sustainable bridge between the excess power in the energy industry and the power deficiency in the High Performance Computing datacenter industry while maintaining strong ESG-standards.

From Earth Wind & Power 16 Jun 2021

CSIRO Report Confirms Renewables Still Cheapest New-Build Power in Australia

Solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind continue to be the cheapest sources of new electricity generation capacity in Australia, even when the integration costs of renewables are included, according to the final 2020-21 GenCost Report, released today.

8 Jun 2021

‘First Power‘ Moray East - Scotland’s Largest Windfarm – Begins Producing Electricity

Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd has announced that it has commenced exporting power to the National Grid, for use by homes and industry across the UK. The windfarm is still under construction, but the engineeri...

7 Jun 2021

Increasing Offshore Energy Production Reduces Wind Speed Around Wind Farms

The expansion of wind energy in the German Bight and the Baltic Sea has accelerated enormously in recent years. The first systems went into operation in 2008.

4 Jun 2021

Wake Steering can Increase Energy Production at U.S. Wind Power Plants

Wake steering is a strategy employed at wind power plants involving misaligning upstream turbines with the wind direction to deflect wakes away from downstream turbines, which consequently increases the net production of wind power at a plant.

19 May 2021

New Blade Recycling Technology Could Revolutionize Wind Power

A new fully recyclable wind turbine blade could cut down on the waste issue that troubles wind power’s sustainability.

18 May 2021

Vertical Turbine Design Far More Efficient than Traditional Turbines in Large Scale Wind Farms

The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines.

27 Apr 2021

CSIRO Recruits Australia’s Top Research Agencies in Global Push for Low Emissions Power Systems

Some of the country’s leading energy research organisations have been recruited to participate in a global research partnership that will focus on accelerating the decarbonisation of our electricity system.

22 Apr 2021