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Readers of this blog will know we've been running a series of posts about new wind equipment factories in the U.S. While I was scanning the news recently, it was striking to note four announcements in two days of wind factories headed to other countries:
- South Korea's Samsung is opening a turbine factory in Windsor, Ontario.
- Germany's Siemens plans a wind ...
This past week saw two strong public statements on the sound emitted by wind turbines and the broader (positive) public health effects of wind energy.
The first article, largely concerned directly with wind turbine sound, appeared in the Oregonian and was authored by Robert McCunney, Robert Dobie, and David Lipscomb. McCunney is a research scientist in occupational and environmental medicine at MIT's Department of Biological Engineering. Dobie is a clinical professor of otolaryngology at both the University of Texas-San Antonio and the University of California-Davis. Lipscomb is ...
If you caught Clifford Krauss’s very optimistic report in the New York Times on the growth in global fossil fuels supplies, don’t miss the rebuttal by J. David Hughes in Renewable Energy World.
Mr. ...
AWEA CEO Denise Bode offers thoughts in today’s National Journal energy blog on the policy ingredients needed for America to build a strong, competitive wind turbine manufacturing industry.
Still another public opinion poll, this time in Pennsylvania, has found remarkably strong public support for wind energy. The numbers, as usual are very strong (85% of voters think it is important for Pennsylvania to support continued expansion of wind farms, 71% want the U.S. Congress to support a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) of fifteen percent by 2021, 58% said paying $2 more per month on their utility bills would have no impact on their support for clean energy).
It’s great to see that after a quarter-century of public opinion surveys on energy, people still understand that a clean energy source that is ...
The International Energy Agency (IEA), which tracks global energy developments for the world’s industrial countries, recently reported that subsidies around the world for fossil fuels (coal, gas, and oil), at $312 billion per year, are nearly six times the $57 billion in subsidies for renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. The IEA also offered a simple policy prescription: take the money now directed toward supporting consumption of fossil fuels and switch it to supporting renewables.
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You might not think it, but panelists in the Transportation and Logistics session at AWEA’s Fall Symposium yesterday generally said that communication is the key to success in transporting larger and larger wind turbine components.
Why?
One major factor is shorter project lead time. As Gary Kowaleski, Logistics Director for Suzlon Wind Energy, pointed out, a few years ago it was common in the industry for turbine manufacturers to sign large-scale frame agreements, in which a major developer would agree to buy hundreds of turbines over a period of years. In that environment, turbine components might be manufactured in large numbers and transported to a storage location. With reduced demand and the transformation of the industry to a buyer’s market, developers ...
Speaking to a rapt audience at the AWEA Wind Energy Fall Symposium in Phoenix, Ariz., yesterday, retired General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell challenged the industry to fulfill its “noble pursuit” to “make America safer, more competitive, and make sure there’s enough energy not just for us but for the people of the world.”
Amid a string of stories about his decades of service to his country, Powell shared management advice – “inspire the followers,” he said, “so that everyone understands one another and are united in a common purpose that is greater than just the goals we are trying to achieve.”
He urged the recovery of moral authority, saying “selflessness is the moral compass we all have to get back to in our country.”
In that ...
Koch Industries, the privately held, Wichita, KS-based oil & gas giant, was “honored” last week by the renewable energy advocacy group Repower America with its “Snake Oil Award.” Said Repower America Campaign Manager Dave Boundy, “Not only do they pollute our environment, they also pollute our democracy by funding climate denial groups that work to mislead and confuse Americans.” Repower America coupled the award with a new Web site devoted to the company.
Koch’s list of activities is long and impressive. The environmental group
This is the way we hoped it would go in the 1980s. While much of the wind energy industry has been focused on bulk power generation for the large-scale utility systems of the U.S. and Europe, there has always been a segment that cast a longing eye on the remote communities of the world that depend on very expensive diesel fuel for electricity. The potential market was obvious, and engineers have labored for decades to exploit it, only to be thwarted by market realities—in most cases, the companies seeking to supply turbines have been small and poorly capitalized, and the challenge of maintaining reliable equipment operation at installations separated by thousands of miles has been daunting.
As time has gone by, though, the companies venturing into the market have gotten ...
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