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Entries for November, 2008

Wind Power | Bull Creek Wind Farm

The Bull Creek Wind Farm will have a capacity of 180MW made up of 180 x Mitsubishi 1000A wind turbines. This project is being developed by Eurus Energy and RES Americas Inc.
The wind project was expected to be completed in 2008 but the latest information I could get was that the date has now moved […]

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Wind Power | Story County Wind Energy Center

The Story County Wind Center in Iowa went into commercial operation in October and consists of 100 wind turbines each with a capacity of 1.5MW. This gives the new facility a total maximum capacity of 150MW.
In a boost for the development which was headed by FPL Energy, a group of 6 electricity conglomerate, generation and […]

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Wind Power | Kittitas Valley Wind Power Project

After years of opposition, petitions against the proposed development and legal battles, The Washington state Supreme Court upheld a decision by a regional energy regulator to allow construction of the Kittitas Valley Wind Power Project in Washington to go ahead. The project is being developed by Horizon Wind Energy and is owned by EDP Renovaveis.
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Wave Power | Wave Hub To Be Built Off Cornwall Coast

Engineering firm JP Kenny, part of John Wood Group PLC, has been chosen by the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) to oversee the design, procurement and construction of the Wave Hub renewable energy project. Should it run to its proposed schedule, it will be producing electricity from wave power in commercial quantities by 2010.
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Solar Energy | Kimberlina CSP Plant

A new concentrating solar power (CSP) plant has recently gone into operation near Bakersfield, California. The Kimberlina solar power plant has a 5MW capacity and although the size appears small, the facility is significant for solar developer Ausra because it will act as a demonstration of the technology that will be used for the Carrizo […]

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Wave Power | PowerBuoy Deployed in Hawaii

Wave energy developers Ocean Power Technologies Inc has announced that they have deployed the third PowerBuoy wave generation units off Marine Corps Base near Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The programme is a wave-energy technology trial that is being conducted with the US Navy.
The newly deployed PowerBuoy units are sitting in 100 feet of water around a […]

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