Texas Sets New Wind Power Record with 6,272-Megawatt Peak
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For a Little While, %19 of the State’s Electricity Came from Wind Power
It looks like the wind is blowing strong these days in Texas. On Sunday Feb. 28th, it broke a wind power electricity generation record with 6,242 megawatts on the ERCOT grid, and that record was broken again 5 days later on Friday March 5th with a 6,272 megawatts peak, and this is just for ERCOT, it doesn’t include wind turbines on the “Panhandle” part of the state because they are…Read the full story on TreeHugger
US Gains 2500 Gigawatts of Wind Power Potential Thanks to Taller Turbines
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A new analysis of the United States’ wind power potential for the lower 48 states has been released by AWS Truewind and shows that increases turbine height mean the nation gains an additional 2,500 gigawatts of onshore power….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Recession Struck Michigan Will Create 130,000 Jobs, $25 Billion with Climate Action Plan
Wind power on the Great Lakes. Photo via Wind Power Ninja
Michigan has one of the bolder plans to fight climate change out of any state in the nation–drawn up last year, it looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a solid 20% below 1990 levels. That’s far, far more than the climate bill that passed the House last summer pledges. And there’s more good news–a recent study from the independent …Read the full story on TreeHugger
U.S. Still #1 “Most Attractive” for Renewable Energy, But China is Catching Up
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But China is #1 in Wind Power Index
In its report titled Renewable energy country attractiveness indices, the firm Ernst & Young tries to measure how “attractive” various countries are to renewable energy development. The biggest news in this new edition of the report no doubt is that China has moved up to #2 on the overall index, bumping Germany to the #3 spot. The only thing that keeps the U.S. ahead of C…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Where Will the World’s Biggest Wind Farm Be Built? (Hint: Head North)
This shows Enercon’s 6 MW turbines, currently the world’s largest (in capacity).
Wind power, after experiencing dead calm for the last 1.5 years as developers struggled to get approval and investment money for their projects, is suddenly moving briskly again…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Massive New US-China Clean Energy Plans Announced
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Obama’s in China this week, and green issues are high on the agenda. As Daniel noted earlier, US and China struck a deal on renewable energy information sharing–some pretty good news on the heels of the more depressing announcement that a global climate treaty is officially out of reach at Copenhagen. But that was only the tip of the iceberg–the two giant greenhouse gas spewing nations ha…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Spanish Wind Power Supplies 50% of Demand Last Sunday Morning – #1 Electricity Source in November
photo: Antonia Zugaldia via flickr.
I have to admit I sometimes get fed up with stats parsing like this, but this new Spanish wind power record is pretty impressive. The Spanish Wind Power Association (abbreviated AEE from the Spanish…) has announced that this past Sunday morning, November 8th, wind power supplied 50% of demand for the entire time period, and up to 53% at times:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
UPS Offers CO2 Offsets to Its Customers, $0.05 to $0.20 Per Package
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This is Pretty Big News
Carbon offsets are certainly controversial and not perfect, but despite their shortcomings they’re still a good way to funnel money from the people who buy the products and services responsible for pollution to green projects like wind power, reforestation, methane capture, etc. The end result might not always be 100% “carbon neutral” as claimed, and if it is, it might not stay that way indefinitely, but a small step in the right direction is better than nothing. T…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Scientists Solve Wind Power’s Mass Bat-Killing Problem
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Wind turbines are an essential to our prospects of building a clean energy economy. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of evidence out there that the turbines kill bats in alarming numbers–more than they do birds. And not in the gruesome manner you’d think–no high speed collisions with the blades–but in another gruesome …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Wind Power Could Supply All of China’s Electricity by 2030, Harvard Study Says
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A new study coming out of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that with the proper investment China could easily ditch its coal burning, carbon emitting ways and be entirely wind powered — and all by 2030…Read the full story on TreeHugger