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Wind Turbines Could Disrupt Hurricanes and Reduce Peak Wind Speeds

For the past 24 years, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has been developing a complex computer model to study air pollution, energy, weather and climate. A recent application of the model has been to simulate the development of hurricanes. Another has been to determine how much energy wind turbines can extract from global wind currents.

27 Feb 2014

New Report on Global Wind Turbine Tower Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Wind Turbine Towers, Update 2014 - Global Market Size, Average Price, Competitive Landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020" report to their offering.

24 Feb 2014

Ferrostaal to Buy Majority Stake in the 'Sainshand' Wind Farm Project in Mongolia

Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH, a project developer facilitating worldwide investments, is taking a majority stake in the 'Sainshand' wind farm project in Mongolia. With 190 GWh of electricity every year, 'Sainshand' will be the largest wind park in Mongolia.

21 Feb 2014

Hyundai Heavy Industries Installs 5.5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine on Jeju Island, South Korea

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading wind turbine supplier, today announced that it completed installation of a 5.5 MW offshore wind turbine prototype on Kimnyeong Wind Farm on Jeju Island, South Korea.

20 Feb 2014

Hydrogenics to Participate in Danish Power-to-Gas Biological Catalysis Project

Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules, today announced that it will be a participating partner of the Power-to-Gas Biological Catalysis ("BioCat") Project in Denmark.

19 Feb 2014

Dominion Seeks to Develop Wind Turbines off the Coast of Maryland

Dominion Tuesday filed with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to be among the bidders seeking to develop wind turbines to generate electricity on nearly 80,000 acres off the coast of Maryland.

19 Feb 2014

First Wind Completes Financing and Continues Construction of Route 66 Wind Project

First Wind, an independent U.S.-based renewable energy company, today announced that it has obtained $206 million in financing for its Route 66 Wind project in Armstrong and Carson Counties, Texas. With financing closed for its first renewable energy project in Texas, First Wind will continue engineering and construction activities on the project.

14 Feb 2014

Deepwater Wind, Alstom Agree to Supply the Block Island Wind Farm with Offshore Wind Turbines

Deepwater Wind and Alstom today announced the signing of major agreements to supply the Block Island Wind Farm with five of Alstom’s 6-megawatt (MW) Haliade 150 offshore wind turbines, bringing the world’s most innovative offshore wind technology to the United States and jumpstarting an East Coast offshore wind industry.

11 Feb 2014

Canadian Wind Energy Market Records Strong Growth in 2013

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) today released its 2013 market statistics, showing global wind energy capacity has tripled over the past five years to reach a total of 318,137 MW.

10 Feb 2014

Tri-State and NextEra Energy Resources Enter Agreement for New 150 MW Wind Carousel Wind Farm

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. announced that it has entered into a 25-year agreement with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC for a 150 megawatt wind power generating facility to be constructed in eastern Colorado, in the service territory of Tri-State member cooperative K. C. Electric Association (Hugo, Colo.).

7 Feb 2014