Global wind report 2024
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
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Cave batteries will store wind power
For Uninterrupted Supply, Air Compressed Into Special Caverns Will Run Turbines Even When It
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Namrup power plant to be upgraded
The Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGCL) has taken initiatives to replace the aged gas and steam turbines of the Namrup Thermal Power Station (NTPS) with the most sophisticated turbines. The initiatives are aimed at enhancing the generation capacity of the power plant to over 140 MW with lesser gas consumption. The six NTPS turbines were installed between 1965 and 1985.
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Can Hybrid Solar Provide Nonstop Electricity?
Date: 18-Feb-09 Country: ISRAEL Author: Ari Rabinovitch KIBBUTZ SAMAR - Israeli energy company AORA wants to prove it doesn't have to be sunny for a solar power plant to make electricity. Like weaning a car from total dependence on fuel, the answer, it says, is to go hybrid.
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Dark days for green energy
Kate Galbraith WIND AND solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and solar power is plummeting.
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Green signal for turbine company
Suzlon Energy, one of the leading turbine manufacturers in the world, is entering the State in a big way. The company got a green signal from the Government on Wednesday, to set up an integrated steel project in Bijapur at the cost of Rs 49,720 crore.
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The answer is wind
The wind turbine industry in Denmark is the largest in the world. The success has been primarily due to a close collaboration between the government and the industry to finance key areas such as research and development, certification, testing and the preparation of standards.
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Silt damage control measures for underwater parts - Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station - Case study of a success story
Hydro power plants located on the Himalayan rivers, typically, have had to endure high silt content in the water passing through the turbines causing enormous damages to the under-water parts of the turbine. The hydro power generating companies are engaged in mitigating this menance and optimizing generation and profits.
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Renewable energy: Anywhere the wind blows
The time and money being spent on wind power is perhaps not surprising when you consider that, based on global average annual wind speeds, worldwide there is the potential to generate 106 million gigawatt-hours of electricity per year from wind - five times the total amount of electricity generated globally today.
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Fanning an alternative
Progressive Maharashtra has rushed to install wind energy plants. But, ask <font class="UCASE"><b>nidhi jamwal</b></font> and <font class="UCASE"><b>shikha lakhanpal</b></font>, reporting from Mumbai and Dhule, why so little electricity is actually generated? Is there an other purpose to private interest in wind?
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Radar and wind farms should coexist, say advisers
The US government must do more to make radar systems and wind farms compatible, according to a group of independent scientific consultants.