buffalo gap wind project

Location

The Clements Gap site is located on the prominent north-south running Barunga Range. The wind farm site is approximately 160 kilometres (km) north northwest of Adelaide City and is situated approximately 20 km to the northeast of Port Broughton.

Orientation

At the Clements Gap Wind Farm, the orientation of the ridgeline favourably captures the predominant westerly winds that arrive from the nearby Spencer Gulf. There are consistent strong winds and the site is located close to the grid.

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BP remains a player in Wise County wind project

WISE — Even while British Petroleum (BP) is up to its corporate neck in the oil-stained waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the company’s wind energy wing continues to explore the prospects of building wind farms in Wise and Tazewell counties along with its partner, Virginia Dominion Power.

An area of Wise County along the Kentucky border of Black Mountain that stretches from Big Stone Gap to northwest of Pound has been under scrutiny by BP Wind Energy and Dominion for more than a year. …

We saw in a previous article how much money a wind farm can generate, but to give a size to this money we need to compare it with the money that flows out of the pockets! Is it more or less then what we expect to earn in a long term?

Table 1 describes the investment costs for a 2MW turbine in 2006. The figures are taken from a study of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). The costs are calculated in sterling pounds at the February 2010 EUR-GBP exchange rate (1.14).

The long-embattled Cape Wind project won federal approval today, marking a major step toward becoming the first US offshore wind-power project and paving the way for a new source of renewable energy for America.

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In Pictures: The answer is blowing in the wind

For nearly a decade, regulatory battles have pitted residents of Massachusetts’ cape and islands, …

… has provided leveraged lease equity financing to Pattern’s wholly owned subsidiary Hatchet Ridge Wind, LLC, the lessee of a 101.2 megawatt (MW) wind energy project located in Burney, California. The project produces clean power equivalent to the annual energy use of 44,000 California homes. MetLife’s investment was supported by long-term institutional lease debt arranged by Credit Agricole Securities. Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank provided a long-term letter of credit facility. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Hatchet Ridge Wind is the only commercial-scale wind project in California to reach operation this year. Hatchet Ridge Wind began full …

Greengate Power Receives Provincial Approval for Canada’s Largest Wind Energy Project

Calgary, AB, March 10, 2011 - Greengate Power Corporation (“Greengate”) has received approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission (“AUC”) to construct and operate its Blackspring Ridge I Wind Project pursuant to Section 11 of the Alberta Hydro and Electric Act. Greengate is expecting to begin construction on the project in 2012, with a target commercial operation date of 2013.

Upon completion, the Blackspring Ridge I Wind Project is expected to be Canada’s largest operating wind energy project with a total generating capacity …

… Energy Systems Canada (RES Canada) Construction LP, an affiliate of RES Americas, to provide their Wind Turbine Obstacle Collision Avoidance System (OCAS) at the Talbot Wind Energy Project near Chatham, Ontario. RES Canada is the developer, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor and partial owner of the Talbot Wind Energy Project. The 98.9 MW Talbot wind farm consists of 43 Siemens turbines.

The OCAS solution utilizes patented radar technology mounted on the turbine tower to detect approaching aircraft and activates the turbine strobe lights for a primary visual warning as required by Transport Canada. This keeps the lights off at all times unless an aircraft …

Vestas Wind (VWDRY) Selects Broadwind Energy (BWEN) Wind Towers For Glacier Hills Project
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Broadwind Energy (BWEN) it was selected by Vestas Wind (VWDRY) to be the wind tower supplier for the Glacier Hills Wind Park in Wisconsin. The 90 turbine project is expected to generate enough renewable electricity to power nearly 50K homes.

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… investor Boone Pickens said today that he is delaying, not canceling, a $10 billion wind energy project in Texas.

The so-called Pampa project will be postponed until 2013 when Texas is expected to complete a $4.9 billion transmission line, Pickens said in Washington today. Reports by the Dallas Morning News and Associated Press on Tuesday that he was ending the project were wrong, he said.

“I didn’t cancel it,” said Pickens, 81, the chairman of Dallas-based BP Capital LLC. “Financing is tough right now so what is going to happen is it’s going to be pushed back a year or two.” Pickens …

CLEVELAND — Work has started in Euclid on what will soon be the largest wind turbine in Northeast Ohio. It is being funded in part by a $350,000 loan from Cuyahoga County government.

Euclid-based Lincoln Electric, a leading manufacturer of arc welding products, will use the loan to help pay for assembly of a 2.5-megawatt wind turbine on its property.

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald requested the loan and the County Council approved it. The loan represents about 6 percent of the financing of a $5.9 million project.

About 75 percent of the cost of the turbine will be covered by Lincoln Electric itself.

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