What to do With a “Tidal Wave” of Texas Wind Turbine Blades
The wind energy industry is struggling to find sustainable solutions for fast-accumulating piles of dead wind turbine blades. So far, all the options come with an environmental price.
A wind turbine farm in Texas. Egor Shitikov
The wind energy industry is struggling to find sustainable solutions for fast-accumulating piles of dead wind turbine blades. So far, all the options come with an environmental price.
A wind turbine farm in Texas. Egor Shitikov
Katie Hill
Jan 28, 2021, 8:00 am CST
Towns the size of Sweetwater normally don’t need many graveyards. The rural community of about 11,000 people is located in the impossibly flat plains west of Abilene and is best known for the 2,000 wind turbines that surround the area. More wind energy is produced in Nolan County than almost anywhere else on the planet, but since this place has given birth to such a staggering number of turbines, it now accommodates more than i
Lack of market demand and long-term sustainability results in the Somozas and Cuenca plants and a collective dismissal agreement for up to 266 employees.
Bosnia s 48 MW Podvelezje wind farm generates first electricity in testing phase Photo: Elektroprivreda BiH
SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), January 15 (SeeNews) - Bosnian power utility Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) [SAJ:JPESR] said on Friday that the 48 MW Podvelezje wind farm has produced its first kilowatt hours of electricity during the functional testing of two of its fifteen turbines.
The Podvelezje wind farm is expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2021, Elektroprivreda BiH said in a press release
The wind farm will produce an estimated 130 GWh of electricity per year, the company said earlier.
The wind farm was built near the southern town of Mostar by a consortium comprising Croatia s Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Denmark s Siemens Wind Power A/S, both units of Spanish engineering company Siemens Gamesa. The surveillance and management system (SCADA) that enables remote monitoring and managing of the wind farm from Sara
The OYSTER project consortium ITM Power, Ørsted, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, and Element Energy has been awarded €5 million in funding from The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH2-JU) under the European Commission to demonstrate and to investigate the feasibility and potential of combining an offshore wind turbine directly with an.