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Carland Cross – Wind farm

Carland Cross wind farm is north of the A30 with road access from the roundabout. It is one of the oldest windfarms in the UK, and was built in 1992. It has 15 turbines manufactured by Vestas with a capacity of 6MW. Plans by the operator, Scottish Power, to upgrade and expand the wind farm [...]

Huxley Hill Wind Farm – Introduction

Huxley Hill Wind Farm (also known as the King Island Wind Farm) is a wind power station at King Island, Tasmania, Australia, owned by Hydro Tasmania. The farm started generating in 1998 and has since been expanded twice, initially with three 250 kW Nordex N26 wind turbines, then in 2003 with two 850 kW Vestas [...]

Belo Monte Dam – Alternatives

WWF-Brazil released a report in 2007 stating that Brazil could cut its expected demand for electricity by 40% by 2020 by investing in energy efficiency. The power saved would be equivalent to 14 Belo Monte hydroelectric plants and would result in national electricity savings of up to R$33& billion (US$19& billion). Ex-director of ANEEL Afonso [...]

Austin Energy – [[Green energy]]

Energy customers can choose to pay a fixed 20 year rate on power obtained from renewable energy sources such as wind power by enrolling in the ”GreenChoice” plan. Austin Energy purchases wind power generated in West Texas and power generated through the burning of landfill gas at landfills in Austin and San Antonio. As part [...]

Climate change mitigation – Methods and means

] At the core of most proposals is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through reducing energy waste and switching to cleaner energy sources. Frequently discussed energy conservation methods include increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles (often through hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric cars and improving conventional automobiles), individual-lifestyle changes and changing business practices. Newly [...]

Nuclear power – Environmental effects of nuclear power

Comparisons of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions Comparisons of life cycle analysis (LCA) of carbon dioxide emissions show nuclear power as comparable to renewable energy sources. A conclusion that is disputed by others studies. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Nuclear power, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Intermittent energy source – Introduction

Intermittent energy source is a term usually used to refer to some sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, (but not to geothermal generated electricity or hydroelectricity), because these sources of electric power generation may be uncontrollably variable or more intermittent than conventional power sources in normal operational conditions. Intermittency is a problem [...]

Sustainable energy – Introduction

Sustainable energy is the provision of energy such that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Sustainable energy sources are most often regarded as including all renewable sources, such as plant matter, solar power, wind power, wave power, geothermal power and tidal power. It [...]

Nordic energy market – Denmark

Wind power in Denmark For more information, see Wind power in Denmark Coal power in Denmark Coal power provided 48.0% of the electricity and 22.0% of the heat in district heating in Denmark in 2008; and in total provided 21.6% of total energy consumption (187PJ out of 864PJ) and is based mainly on coal imported [...]

IEC 61400-25 – Introduction

IEC 61400-25 (Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants, TC 88) provides uniform information exchange for monitoring and control of wind power plants. This addresses the issue of proprietary communication systems utilizing a wide variety of protocols, labels, semantics, etc., thus enabling one to exchange information with different wind power plants independently of [...]

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