Tag: Renewables
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How Offshore Wind Turbines Could Have Calmed Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy
By Tim Radford U.S. engineers have thought of a new way to take the heat out of a hurricane. Fortuitously-placed offshore wind farms could make dramatic reductions in wind speeds and storm surge wave heights. Hurricanes are capricious consequences of peculiar sea temperature and wind conditions, while wind farms are the outcome of years of…
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Study Surveys Veterans’ Powerful Presence in U.S. Solar Energy Industry
For the first time, a report has gauged the contributions of veterans in the U.S. solar industry. According to Veterans in Solar: Securing America’s Energy Future, released today by Operation Free and The Solar Foundation, 9.3 percent of the workers in the nation’s solar sector are veterans. That’s good for 13,192 employees who happen to be veterans of…
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Arizona Air Force Base Celebrates Largest Solar Array of Any on U.S. Department of Defense Grounds
There are at least 700 renewable energy projects on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) grounds. The department’s largest solar array was launched this month in Arizona. The Davis-Monthan Air Force base (D-M) in Tucson, AZ celebrated the ribbon cutting of a 16.4-megawatt photovoltaic solar array earlier this month. The array is powerful enough to provide electricity to 3,000 homes…
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Solar Industry’s Sizzling Start to New Year Could Lead to More Broken Records
With the coldest winter in two decades gripping much of the country this year—and wild price swings for natural gas rattling the markets, not to mention American consumers—it’s easy for many people to overlook the “hot start” in 2014 for solar energy. But so far this year, it’s been good news followed by even more…
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Renewable Energy Provided 99 Percent of New Power Generation in January
The new year began with as green a bang as any renewable energy advocate could have hoped for. Renewable sources provided nearly 100 percent of the new power generation installed in the U.S. in January, according to new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Of the 325 megawatts (MW) of added generation, only 1…