Wind

Flagstaff, Arizona- based Southwest Wind Power is the world’s largest maker of small wind systems. Their turbines can be found next to farm houses; on utility poles and offshore oil rigs; and even in a model that deploys rapidly in a military hot zone.
GE, which is the country’s leading supplier [...]

Traditionally, Brazil has relied heavily on hydropower for its electricity supply, but it’s now betting big on wind. Already the wind energy leader in Latin America, Brazil aims to increase its wind capacity fivefold by 2013 and is expected to account for 69 percent of the region’s wind energy base [...]

Because wind turbines are such a great source of clean, renewable energy, they’re usually greeted with a great deal of enthusiasm. But some complaints have been made that they can cause too much noise for residents living within a mile of the blades.
So just how noisy are these turbines?
The [...]

With Canada’s big wind energy summit wrapping up in Montreal today, the country’s renewable energy path is in the spotlight. From 2003 to 2009, the country’s installed wind energy base “increased tenfold” – and by the end of this year, North American Windpower magazine notes that the installed capacity is [...]

British Prime Minister David Cameron met GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt at Number 10 Downing Street on a day when Cameron reaffirmed the importance of the UK’s push into developing offshore wind energy.
In a speech earlier in the day, Cameron told business leaders: “We need thousands of offshore turbines [...]

Already the world’s largest wind turbine market, China is projected to grow its capacity by an additional 500 percent — growing from 25 gigawatts in 2009 to a whopping 150 gigawatts by 2020. That aggressive wind development plan comes as China’s overall electricity demand is growing at a rate of [...]

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As wind and solar power draw increased attention in the push for clean, renewable sources of energy, the question of how to integrate them into the power grid is also in the spotlight. GE Energy recently prepared a lengthy [...]