Asia Report: India’s Wind Potential 30 Times Greater Than Believed?

March 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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A recent reassessment of the India wind energy market blows the lid off of previous capacity estimates.

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Impact of Curtailment on Wind Economics

March 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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The increase in utility scale wind development across North America has and continues to change the energy supply mix in many jurisdictions. Driven primarily by state-level renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requirements and clean air regulation, state and provincial supply mixes once dominated by coal, hydro nuclear and natural gas are now becoming more diverse. Intermittent generation sources – once a small component of total capacity – are becoming substantial. And, as a result, system operators have had to periodically curtail these intermittent generators in order to maintain system balance and reliability.

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Citizens Make an Example of Minnesota "Community Wind" Project

March 12, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Community wind promises to expand the economic opportunity of transitioning the electricity system to cleaner energy and engage local communities.  Unfortunately, there’s “community wind” and community wind, as one Minnesota project starkly illustrates.
Goodhue Wind was first envisioned as a 78-MW “community wind” project by National Wind i

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