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Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind!

by Tom Raftery on November 14, 2009 · 180 comments

in renewables

Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy.
As you can see from the graph above, the amount of electricity being supplied by wind, the light green portion of the graph, doesn’t [...]

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REALLY Smart Meters!

by Tom Raftery on December 9, 2008 · 9 comments

in smart grid

Photo Credit yewenyi
Smart electricity meter projects are being rolled out all over the globe at this stage (here’s a map of the Smart Meter projects in the US), and with the Smart Meters, come Smart Grids and Demand Response programs whereby the utilities implement peak shaving programs (and in certain cases demand stimulation) to match [...]

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New, radically more efficient wind turbines

by Tom Raftery on June 13, 2008 · 1 comment

in renewables

Photo Credit fieldsbh
The traditional look of windfarms, like the one above, could be changing if an article I read on News.com recently is anything to go by. The piece was about a new type of wind turbine from a company called FloDesign.
The devices have:

-shorter sturdier rotors so the turbines can be placed closer together. [...]

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