Wind farm in Utah goes live 203MW
Utah just went live with their largest wind farm yet, 203MW of clean pollution free electricity is now being generated in the first phase of what will become an even larger project. 203MW is enough to power 45,000 homes with clean renewable energy. Though Utah will be getting $86 million dollars injected into their economy for the project, all of the power that is generated is not going to homes in Utah, all of the power is being sent down to California where a 20 contract for the energy has been signed. First Wind is operating the project and the wind farm which is located in the Beaver and Millard counties of Utah. See more about this project on TreeHugger.
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Worlds Largest Offshore Windfarm
Denmark has just christened their newest environmental feat. A massive 209 MW offshore windfarm 30 km off the coast of Jutland (in the North Sea). Constructed by DONG energy, tis 91 turbine farm will power over 200,000 homes with clean renewable energy harnessed from the strong sea winds. Horns Rev 2 has claimed the title of the Worlds Largest Offshore Windfarm. Furthermore, this wind farm has its own 24 hour maintenance crew that live on a sea platform they have dubbed the “Poseidon”. This success of Denmark should hopefully get the UK moving, as their offshore windfarm has hit nothing but delays since its proposal. Now the question is, how long will they hold this title?
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1.5 Gigawatt Wind Farm in China
Jiuquan city in the Gansu province of China will be getting 500 megawatts of wind power this year, with another gigawatt to come shortly after. The total 1.5GW farm will reduce Chinas carbon emissions about 3.5 Gigatons a year while supplying over a million homes with clean renewable electricity. This news follows shortly after news of about 2 more gigawatts of wind power planned for the Inner Mongolian region of China. The China Huaneng Group will be building the wind farm which they hope will bring them up to their goal of having a 10 Gigawatt renewable energy portfolio by the end of 2010.
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Rooftop Wind Turbines in Portland
Southwest Windpower has just installed 4 wind turbines to the new residential tower on 12st street in downtown Portland, Oregon. The 4 wind turbines will power a portion of the buildings electrical needs and will serve as an experiment for the viability of rooftop wind power. The Energy Trust of Oregon paid for the turbines atop the LEED Platinum certified tower where they will only provide about 1% of the total power for the building. See more (including a video) at Jetson Green.
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Wind power from electrical towers
Here is a brilliant idea from a French design group that uses existing electrical towers in order to generate, well, more power. The large metal electrical towers that you see running up every hillside and down every highway can be useful for more than just carrying electricity, they can now generate it too. In an ideal situation with some good wind speed, a turbine set inside one of those large electrical towers could generate enough power for 20 average homes. For France, that ends up being about 5% of their total electricity demand. The electrical towers have to be there anyway, so we might as well get multiple uses out of them and harness some of that free, renewable, clean electricity. Jump over to Inhabitat for more information.