Tag Archives: Turbine

Things To Consider About Home Wind Power

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Wind power generation can now be done from home. With the exponential population growth curve, our current level of sustainability without causing serious harm to the planet is no longer possible. This is why the time for wind power and solar power is now. All over the Internet, wind power generator kits are coming into mainstream. Wind power and solar power, through the use of a battery bank, reduces your electricity bills, saves the planet, and is a superior supply of energy during power outages. This article gives you a few things to consider first if you are looking to build a home wind power generator. You need to have an open area Read more [...]

Wind Turbine Costs

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Wind Turbine Costs Article by Russell Nash As the wind power becomes more and more popular, the turbines' costs get cheaper. Using wind turbines as their source of electricity is not new, it was already here around 100 years ago but it continues to evolve. As the evolution of wind turbines gets more popular, most of the technologies in concern with the turbines also benefits. In wind turbines, there are lots of models and packages, but the most expensive type of turbines are those commercial ones, like the turbines seen in farms. They will cost less if they are to be used in a small generation wind. The commercial turbines are sturdier and Read more [...]

Obama touts Mich. wind turbine company, but skeptics question if there’s enough jobs payoff

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DETROIT — A Michigan factory that made luxury yachts before the recession and diversified to add wind energy products when times got tough was touted by President Barack Obama at his State of the Union Address as an example of an industry creating forward-thinking jobs — with a little help from the government. In urging Congress to approve clean energy tax credits, Obama cited Energetx Composites LLC, a wind turbine blade manufacturer in Holland, Mich., that received millions in government assistance. Invited to sit in the first lady’s box during the speech Tuesday night was Bryan Ritterby, 58, who went to work for Energetx after being Read more [...]

U.S. Wind-Turbine Installations Rose 31% in 2011, AWEA Says

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Developers installed wind turbines with capacity of 6,810 megawatts in the U.S. last year, 31 percent more than in 2010, as they rushed to qualify for a federal-tax grant that expired last month, according to an industry group. Fourth-quarter installations reached 3,444 megawatts, topping the first three quarters combined, led by California, Illinois and Ohio, the fastest-growing state, the American Wind Energy Association said today in a report. New wind farms with capacity of more than 8,300 megawatts are under construction now. Developers will try to complete them before another federal incentive expires Dec. 31. The Washington-based Read more [...]

Wind power: Clean energy, dirty business?

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MEXICO CITY Like the oil drilling rig that became an icon of the Industrial Age, the giant, spinning wind turbinehas become a global image of clean power. No longer a futuristic dream of environmentalists, wind power has become a big business: Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in 1998, wind-generated electricity has grown 20-fold: from only enough to power the equivalent of two New York Cities, to 200,000 megawatts today – enough to power six Britains. (In an address today about "American energy," linking clean energy to economic and national security, President Obama said that his administration would Read more [...]