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ROBERT GATES JOINS CLIPPER WINDPOWER TO HEAD U.S. SALES

CARPINTERIA, CALIFORNIA – March 31, 2006 – Clipper Windpower (AIM: CWP) today announced that Robert Gates has joined the Company’s management team as Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations to lead its wind turbine sales for North America.

Since 2002, Gates has served in a senior position within GE Energy’s wind energy segment, with responsibilities spanning wind power project development, wind turbine sales, and related activities in finance, regulatory, construction and operations. …

Southwest Windpower’s cutting-edge Skystream 3.7 wind turbine brings residential windpower into the same price range as utility power! Skystream’s innovative downwind tail-less design and utility compatible inverter create an easy to install, low maintenance power system capable of producing an estimated 100 kWh/month of power with an average 7.9mph wind speed.

The Skystream’s unique design makes it one of the quietest residential turbines available, with a sound profile very similar to the background noise level in tests. The turbine can be mounted on 33 and 45 foot monopole towers for the …

… converge on Anaheim, Calif., May 22-25 for the world’s largest annual wind power trade show, WINDPOWER 2011 Conference & Exhibition. Hosted by the American Wind Energy Association at the Anaheim Convention Center this year, the conference returns to the state where it all began, and for good reason: California, which set the modern wind energy industry in motion back in the 1980s, is once again taking a leadership role, recently setting the strongest renewable target in the U.S. – 33 percent renewables by 2020 – and thereby demanding more clean, affordable, and homegrown energy.

The WINDPOWER 2011 program boasts influential leaders and visionaries such as CNN …

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Mar 07, 2011 07:55 ET

NEWBURY PARK, CA–(Marketwire – March 7, 2011) – Sauer Energy, Inc. (“SEI”) (OTCBB: SENY), a developer of home and enterprise scale vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) systems, will showcase a pre-production sample of its WindCharger Turbine System at the WindPower 2011 Conference and Exhibition (“WindPower 2011″) hosted by …

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The Obama administration’s trade complaint against China over support for its wind-energy manufacturers won backing from U.S. business groups. The case, filed at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, is the first by the U.S. over green technology after months of complaints about Chinese efforts to force manufacturers to make those products in the country. A government fund for wind …

The standard formula for calculating energy to be expected from a wind turbine expressed in metric terms is:

kWh = (1/2)(p)(V^3)(A)(E)(H), where

“p” (normally “rho”, which looks like a small “p”) is the density of air

“V^3″ is the CUBE of the wind velocity

“A” is the area swept by the turbine rotors

“E” is the efficiency of capturing the kinetic energy that exists in a unit area of intercepted wind (such as “A”, above) for the given wind power capturing device at the given wind speed. This,in theory, can never exceed 59.3 percent, …

1 – Wind energy was abandoned well over a hundred years ago, as it was totally inconsistent with our burgeoning more modern needs of power, even in the late 1800s. When we throw the switch, we expect that the lights will go on — 100% of the time. It’s not possible for wind energy, by itself, to ever do this, which is one of the main reasons it was relegated to the dust bin of antiquated technologies (along with such other inadequate sources like horse power).

2 – Fast forward to several years ago. With politicians being …

Electronic photos of the Vestas and Clipper turbines available upon request.

Other BP wind projects in the U.S.

In operation:
Cedar Creek: In January 2008, Babcock & Brown and BP announced full commercial operation of the Cedar Creek wind farm in Weld County, Colorado. The 300.5 MW wind-power facility utilizes 274 wind turbines and was delivered on time, on budget and without a single lost time incident during its construction. Power from the project will be sold under a long-term contract to the Public Service Company of Colorado, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc.

Under …

… have an interest in residential size wind systems for their home or business. The workshop will define wind energy, describe how residential wind energy systems work, and provide a basis for making informed decisions about the design, sizing, and siting of wind energy systems. Sponsored by MREA. For more information, click here.

September 15-17, 2011 AWEA Small and Community WINDPOWER 2011 Conference & Exhibition, Des Moines, IA

This event brings together the thought leaders of the wind industry with manufacturers, dealers, installers, and customers from across the domestic, commercial, and agricultural sectors looking for …

… well as towers and blades that are just, well, bigger. But how big can the turbines get?

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American Superconductor is going for a whopping 10 megawatts, more than twice the power of some of the bigger turbines in operation today. General Electric, one of the largest manufactures of wind turbines in the world, currently makes turbines ranging from 1.5 MW to 3.6 MW.

American Superconductor said this week that it will work with the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and its National Wind Technology Center to look at the economics of building a 10-MW turbine. The Devens, Mass.-based …