Wind Watch: Industrial Wind Energy News
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Impact démographique des parcs éoliens d’Aumelas sur la population locale de Faucons crécerellettes
L’impact de la mortalité des oiseaux par collision sur les parcs éoliens a souvent été évalué au niveau individuel, mais rarement au niveau de la population. Le Faucon crécerellette Falco naumanni est un rapace migrateur de courte durée de vie en voie de disparition, susceptible de collision avec les éoliennes. Cette étude a évalué les impacts des collisions d’éoliennes de parcs éoliens sur la démographie de la plus grande population de Faucon crécerellette en France. En utilisant des données de . . . Complete story »
Sécurité militaire : un projet éolien rejeté par l’État dans le nord de la Vienne
Dans un arrêté du 1er septembre 2022, la préfecture de la Vienne rejette le projet éolien de Glénouze-Ranton, dans le Loudunais. En jeu selon elle, la sécurité militaire. La société Eolise, promoteur du projet, consteste la décision. C’est assez rare pour être souligné. Dans un arrêté en date du 1er septembre 2022, la préfecture de la Vienne annonce le “rejet” du projet de parc éolien de Champs-Gautier, sur les communes de Glénouze et Ranton dans le Loudunais. Ce projet de . . . Complete story »
Siemens Gamesa wins U.S. ban on GE wind turbines in patent dispute
A Boston federal judge barred General Electric Co on Wednesday from making and selling its Haliade-X wind turbines in the United States, after a jury found in June that the turbines infringed a patent owned by rival Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S. U.S. District Judge William Young said Siemens Gamesa was entitled to the ban because it suffered irreparable harm, including a significant loss of market share to GE, based on the infringement. Young also allowed GE to continue making . . . Complete story »
Claims made by environmentalists about the so-called virtues of large-scale wind and solar farms simply demonstrate engineering and technical ignorance, compounded by a serious misunderstanding of how the electricity generating industry functions
It is an irrefutable fact that due to the variability of the weather wind and solar cannot, and will never, ensure security of supply for UK electrical energy, which requires in the order of 346 TWh per annum (2019 figure). They are also all at sea about fracking and have fallen for all the misleading propaganda, as any geologist worth his salt will confirm. Fracking has turned the US economy around and it could do the same for the UK. . . . Complete story »
Wind turbines a concern for some in Harvey County
The Harvey County regional planning commission is set to review and approve criteria for a commercial renewable energy project. The project is trying to bring renewable energy to the county, which includes building wind turbines to zoned areas. For some people living in the county, they say they’re not happy about the wind turbines. “I could list you a lot of things that are concerns that people aren’t aware of,” Kenneth Umholtz, who lives on a farm in Harvey County, . . . Complete story »
« C’est une horreur ! » : beaucoup plus visible que prévu, le premier parc éolien offshore de France ulcère riverains et touristes
[Almost finished, the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind energy facility is creating much more visual pollution than predicted.] Presque terminé, le chantier du parc éolien offshore de Saint-Nazaire semble donner naissance à une pollution visuelle bien plus importante que prévu. En décembre prochain, le parc éolien offshore de Saint-Nazaire sera mis en service. Une toute première en France, qui devrait permettre à plus de 80 éoliennes de fournir un total de 480 MW, soit 20% de la consommation électrique totale de la Loire-Atlantique. . . . Complete story »
The Kintyre wind farm ‘gold rush’
All the power generated at the Beinn an Tuirc 3 wind farm, on the Kintyre peninsula, belongs to Amazon. Complete story »
Appeals court rules against NextEra Energy in a lawsuit against Reno County over wind farm
The state’s appellate court has upheld a finding that petitions by opponents of a large commercial wind farm in the southeast quadrant of Reno County were legally sufficient to force a unanimous County Commission vote on a permit for the proposed development. The ruling against Pretty Prairie Wind LLC, a subsidiary that NextEra Energy created to develop the project, came more than two years after the Florida-based multinational corporation appealed a ruling by now-retired Reno County District Judge Tim Chambers. . . . Complete story »
Marion Co. Commissioners approve solar, wind restrictions in 4 more townships
The list of townships in Marion County that are restricting the development of solar and wind energy projects is growing. During their Aug. 18 meeting, the Marion County Commissioners voted to approve resolutions submitted by trustees from Big Island, Claridon, Richland, and Salt Rock townships that will limit such development. All four resolutions followed the same format with the same language. The commissioners voted to approve a similar resolution put forth by the Pleasant Township Trustees at the conclusion of . . . Complete story »
Oregon wind farm sees blades, bolts fly off as failures mount: report
A new report has revealed the unreliability of a major Oregon wind farm, discovered after a blade from a windmill detached and flew across the field. According to The Oregonian, in January, a delivery driver found some broken, industrial-size bolts on the ground near one of Portland General Electric’s towering wind turbines but did not know who to tell and used it as a paperweight. On Feb 1 at 2:11 am, one of the turbine’s 11-story tall blades flew the . . . Complete story »
