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WindShare – History

* 1998 – Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative (TREC) was incorporated * 1999 – TREC received a grant to study three potential sites for an urban wind turbine project in Toronto. * June 30, 1999 – TREC forms ad hoc partnership with Toronto Hydro to build wind turbine(s) * February, 2002 – WindShare co-operative officially launched. [...]

Cubic mile of oil – Replacement of oil by alternative sources

While oil has many other important uses (lubrication, plastics, roadways, roofing) this section considers only its use as an energy source. The CMO is a powerful means of understanding the difficulty of replacing oil energy by other sources. SRI International chemist Ripudaman Malhotra, working with Crane and colleague Ed Kinderman, used it to describe the [...]

Wind power in Maine – Redington and Black Nubble

In 2005, Maine Mountain Power (MMP) filed an application with the Maine Land Use Regulation Committee (LURC) for a permit to develop a 30-turbine wind farm on Mount Redington and neighboring Black Nubble . After years of contentious debate, the proposal was voted down by the LURC in 2007. The summit of Redington was seen [...]

Meadow Lake Wind Farm – Introduction

Meadow Lake Wind Farm is a wind farm near Brookston and Chalmers, Indiana, spreading over portions of White, Jasper, and Benton Counties in Indiana, owned and operated by Horizon Wind Energy. The wind farm is undergoing construction in phases, and could eventually reach a combined nameplate capacity of 1000 MW with over 600 wind turbines. [...]

Hornblower Hybrid – Introduction

Hornblower Hybrid is the first known multi-hulled hybrid ferry boat in the United States. It is the first hybrid ferry in San Francisco, and the first hybrid ferry to be used to transport visitors to a National Park (Alcatraz). The Hornblower Hybrid was built by Alcatraz Cruises in 2008. It uses a combination of solar, [...]

Environmental effects of wind power – Introduction

published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, stated: “Even seemingly clean sources of energy can have implications on human health. Wind energy will undoubtedly create noise, which increases stress, which in turn increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer.” The Japanese Environment Ministry will begin a [...]

Tulsi Tanti – Introduction

Tulsi Tanti is the chairman and managing director of Suzlon Energy, a US $10 billion market cap wind power based company. He, along with his three siblings, own 70% of the company. He is from Rajkot Gujarat where he started his first venture which was in textiles in Surat called Sulzer Synthetics P. Ltd. later [...]

History of wind power – 20th century

Development in the 20th century might be usefully divided into the periods: * 1900-1973, when widespread use of individual wind generators competed against fossil fuel plants and centrally-generated electricity * 1973-onward, when the oil price crisis spurred investigation of non-petroleum energy sources. 1900-1973= Denmark development In Denmark wind power was an important part of a [...]

Biglow Canyon Wind Farm – History

In 2005, Orion Energy announced plans to develop a 450-megawatt wind farm with 225& turbines at Biglow Canyon in the Columbia River Gorge, at the time the largest project of its kind in Oregon. Portland General Electric (PGE) acquired Orion’s development right to the $200 million project in 2006. In November 2006, PGE purchased the [...]

Rural electrification – Continental and national initiatives

China China launched the China Township Electrification Program in 2001 to provide renewable electricity to 1,000 townships, one of the largest such programs in the world. This is being followed by the China Village Electrification Program, also using renewable energy, aimed at electrification of a further 3.5 million households in 10,000 villages by 2010, to [...]

Ka Lae – History

South Point archaeological site Ka Lae is the site of one of the earliest Hawaiian settlements has one of the longest archaeological records on the islands. It is generally thought that this is where the Polynesians first landed because the Big Island is the closest of the Hawaiian Islands to Tahiti, and Ka Lae would [...]

Benton County, Indiana – Economy

In 2008 the Benton County Wind Farm began operating with 87 1.5 MW wind turbines. Duke Energy purchases electricity from the wind farm and sells it to customers through its GoGreen program. In 2009 the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm opened nearby, giving Benton County one of the largest concentrations of wind turbines in the United [...]

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