wind Energy

The 11th Annual Wind Power Investment & Finance Summit 2012 will be held at the Rancho Bernardo Inn Resort in San Diego California from the 8th until the 10th of February. The summit attracts financiers, lenders, leading project developers, investors, and other key players in an effort to discuss the latest developments regarding wind power investment and financing.

United States is one of the leading countries in the installation of Wind Energy farms for the generation of electricity. More than 20% of the world’s wind power capacity comes from US making it the second largest wind power producer in the world, behind China. The following facts about Wind Energy have been recorded in U.S during 2011

In a recent energy summit, Energy Storage was considered as one of the top 5 technologies that are necessary to delay or postpone climate change. Energy Storage is also an essential ingredient of the Renewable Energy Sources expansion since it is needed to solve the element of unpredictability for some of the renewable green energy sources like Solar and Wind energy sources.

Energy Storage is key for Renewable Energy Sources’ penetration into power generation. Renewable Energy Sources (RES) have become of particular importance in the establishment of green, environmentally friendly applications; thus they constitute a crucial piece of the puzzle for achieving global environmental, economical and social/political sustainability.

We have seen up to now how Wind Power can be used to generate electricity in wind farms and to cover the needs of a home with home wind turbines. Wind Power can also be used in a number of commercial applications to cover some of the needs of your company or organization.

Wind is free, so why don’t we produce our own electricity from our very own home wind turbine. Home wind turbines (also known as residential wind turbines, domestic wind turbines or small wind turbines) harness the power of the wind in order to produce enough electricity to cover our home needs.

Many countries have developed aggressive plans to invest in Wind Power. As a result Wind Power is becoming a rapidly evolving technology with many interesting facts. The following interesting facts about wind power have been recorded until 2011.

Wind energy is the conversion of the kinetic energy of the wind, by the use of wind turbines, into mechanical energy which is then converted into electricity. Mechanical energy is simply created when the wind turbine blades spin and a generator is turned, thus producing electricity. The result is a green renewable energy ready for us to use.

A wind turbine is the main element of a wind farm, and is used to convert the kinetic energy of the wind to mechanical energy and then to electricity. In the context of electricity production the wind turbine is also known as wind generator. A wind turbine consists of the rotor, the blades that are attached to the rotor, a generator and the tower structure.

Over the last decade there has been an enormous evolution in the wind energy (wind power) technology. The wind turbine manufacturers are now developing highly efficient wind turbines both for onshore and offshore use, with a potential to generate up to 7MW of power per wind turbine.

A wind turbine is the main element of a wind farm and is used for the production of wind energy. Since the commercial deployment of the first wind turbine in the 1980s, there has been a tremendous improvement in their efficiency, capacity and design characteristics.

There are two major types of wind turbines: the horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT) and vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT). This article is about the less common vertical axis wind turbines.VAWT are so called because they rotate around the vertical axis (the rotator shaft is perpendicular to the ground).

A wind farm is a collection of wind turbines in a single location and is used for the commercial production of electricity. There are two types of wind warms: the onshore wind farms and the offshore wind farms. As the name implies onshore wind farms are wind farms located on land whereas offshore wind farms are located in the water (in the sea, or in the lakes). This article is about the offshore wind farms.

How much do wind turbines cost? Unfortunately, there is no straight single answer to this but only a dependent one based on custom specific circumstances; any single answer to this question, unfortunately, should not be taken too seriously.