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The Department of the Interior has approved the Tule Wind Power Project. Now it needs the approval of the “California Public Utilities Commission, Bureau of Indian Affairs, California State Lands Commission and County of San Diego” and needs them quickly so they can build it before tax credits expire at the end of 2012. WindFlip tows the turbine out almost horizontal – and then when it gets to the site, tilts it up into position – using only the weight of seawater to do it. CleanTechnica has the details on this innovative technology to tow and install behemoth floating offshore wind turbines. This is of course happening in [...] The Midwest’s Wind Power Hub from Energy NOW on Vimeo. Clean Technica has more. (And who knew Minnesota was windy?) Minnesota utilities are considering using Mesabi open pit mines to as a way to store excess energy created by wind farms. It will cost $9 billion and be the world’s largest. Meanwhile the US still has no offshore wind because arguing about it is surely more productive than actually doing anything. Worth more than $900 million, the [293] turbines’ combined capacity totals 673 MW, enough to provide clean, renewable power for more than 200,000 homes They will be installed in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada. New lease agreements could lead to a whopping 5GW increase in wind power off Scotland, which is a serious amount of power indeed, probably enough for 2-3 million Scottish homes. Meanwhile our own country, champion of renewable energy that it is, has precisely zero offshore wind farms. Now that Cape Wind has been harpooned, [...] Take a bow, Kennedy clan and the rest of you phony squeaky green environmentalists around Cape Cod who support clean energy as long as you don’t have to look at an icky wind turbine way distant in the ocean. Oh the horror. Yes, Cape Wind is probably dead. It would have been the first offshore [...] Two somewhat unusual pieces of wind news. Wholesale price of electricity dropped to $0.00 in Texas briefly, due to wind farms I think you can guess why. Yes, wind power being cheap as heck, the wind blowing strong at night, and less electricity demand is the mixture that caused this to happen. Big wind farms [...] California plans to have 33% renewable energy by 2020. Jim Detmers helped create the California Independent System Operator, which operates most of the state’s wholesale transmission grid. He was right back then when he predicted a calamity was coming. He’s worried now too. Here’s why. Traditional forms of electricity generation like coal, natural gas, [...] |  | ||||
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