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Homeowners this fall will be able to buy a wind turbine at hardware stores that tackles the small wind industry's bete noire: slow wind. WindTronics has developed a wind turbine sized for individual homes that it says can operate at speeds as low as 2 miles an hour. It will be sold for $4,500 as the Honeywell Wind Turbine... ... generate 2,000 kilowatt-hours in a year for a home with a very good--called Class 4--wind resource, according to the company. That's between 15 and 20 percent of the annual electricity consumption for the average U.S. home.

FloDesign Wind Turbine, a spin-off from the aerospace company FloDesign has developed a wind turbine that could generate electricity at half the cost of conventional turbines. The design circumvents the Betz limit.

Wind energy: health, cost, performance I've got a two-story series in the Toronto Star that ran this week on wind energy. The first looks at claims that wind farms are causing some people living near them to become sick. The second looks at claims that wind energy costs too much, doesn't achieve the claimed emission reductions, and simply fails to perform as promised.

Ecogeek has a post on an offshore wind farm planned for the US great lakes - Nation's First Freshwater Offshore Wind Farm Planned for Lake Erie. It's an exciting time in wind energy these days. The U.S. will be getting its first offshore wind farm thanks to Cape Wind's long-awaited approval, and now plans for the first freshwater offshore wind farm in the U.S. have been announced as well. The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp has signed a deal with GE to purchase five offshore wind turbines destined for the Ohio waters of the lake. The 4-MW turbines will be placed three to five miles offshore though their exact planned location isn't known. This is expected to be the first order of many from the development corp that has made a goal of having 1 GW of freshwater-based wind energy online by 2020."

A major new research, development and demonstration initiative called the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) aims to cut the cost of offshore wind energy by 10% or more through a combination of wind farm cost reductions and performance improvements. It will focus on the short to medium-term, covering key topics related to wind farm design, construction and operation

A Norweigan company, SWAY A/S, is developing a deepwater wind turbine system. It seems that this system may offer a technical solution to two issues which are related to wind.  These  issues are that turbines are an eyesore for some and that of positioning turbines to receive a consistent wind flow. By enabling turbines to be placed far out to sea SWAY theoretically overcomes the eyesore issue. Also, wind flow may be more consistent in the open ocean and therefore a more approporiate environment to harvest consistent wind.
 

Building off sharp growth in 2007‐2008, US wind power development in 2009 has been impacted dramatically by the current economic climate-and US wind players must readjust their strategies in the wake of this new competitive environment. The US wind power industry finished 2008 at a record pace with 8,546 MW of new wind plant added, led by Texas, Iowa, New York, Kansas, and Wyoming. EER forecasts a sharp decline in 2009, but a rebound in 2010 and growth of 12 GW per year on average from 2010‐2020 to supply nearly 14% of total US power demand.

Wind power is, of course, controversial. A big knock is that until power-storage technology evolves, wind farms will work only when the wind blows. Wind energy proponents counter that the sites picked for wind farms are predictably gusty, though they acknowledge wind turbines will never be a complete answer to the nation's energy issues. But they say they can be a significant part of the our energy future when intelligently integrated with traditional power plants that have the ability to pick up the slack when wind doesn't deliver.

A timely article to remind readers about the status of wind turbines in the US. No longer a marginal form of electrical generation, wind turbine installed capacity in the US is on the up. Apparently, wind already supplies about 1% American electricity, powering the equivalent of 4.5 million homes. However, in spite of advances in the wind field, electricity generated via wind turbines is at this time costlier than that generated from fossil fuels. Also, wind power has the disadvantage of being intermittent and unpredictable, but this matter may be overcome with battery storage in some cases.

I was browsing Greentech Media and learned about a Massachusetts aerospace company called FloDesign that's developed a new wind turbine design around the concept of a jet engine. This could allow for a more efficient wind turbine that produces two to three times more wind power than typical machines.

[Backup for wind] is a very complex issue. Here are my attempts at (hopefully) simple explanations for why the following four statements are, in all four cases, not really accurate. From a wind power perspective, the four statements amount to the same thing. STATEMENT: "they (utility) still have to maintain adequate fossil and nuclear capacity for dealing with times without wind."

A surprising number of inaccuracies in an article that aims to "set the record straight".

"More than 800 giant wind turbines spin off the coasts of Denmark, Britain and seven other European countries, generating enough electricity from strong ocean breezes to power hundreds of thousands of homes. China's first offshore wind farm, a 102-megawatt venture near Shanghai, goes online this month, with more in the pipeline. Multimedia Map Related * Pressure Is Building on Disputed Wind Farm (April 26, 2010) * Green Blog: Who Will Build the First Offshore Wind Farm in North America? (April 26, 2010) * Times Topic: Wind Power Green A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog Enlarge This Image Julia Cumes/Associated Press The secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, near the site of the Cape Wind project. Enlarge This Image Julia Cumes/Associated Press Supporters and opponents of the wind farm outside the Coast Guard station in Woods Hole, Mass. But despite a decade of efforts, not a single offshore turbine has been built in the United States. "

"The UK wind industry is planning large offshore wind farms, some at considerable distance from shore and in deeper water. Round 3 sites are from 13 to 195 km from shore compared with 12 km for the most distant existing offshore wind farms. There is an urgent need to ensure that offshore wind turbine availability is underpinned by appropriate approaches to operations and maintenance supported by intelligent asset management. Glasgow is aiming to become a center of excellence in offshore wind through development of the ITREZ (International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone)."

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BOULDER, Colo. -- May 4 2009 - The wind energy industry has been battered by the global economic crisis, with market participants being dealt a severe blow by the credit crunch that began in 2008. However, the future prospects for wind energy remain bright, according to a new report from Pike Research. The cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that total installed wind generation capacity will reach 320 gigawatts (GW) in 2015, representing a 165% increase over 2008 levels.