Boone Pickens, once an ardent supporter of wind power, has announced plans to scale back wind investment, primarily because natural gas has made wind unattractive to investors.
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Subsidiary MEG Renewables is now seeking sites to develop and operate small to medium-scale wind turbines.
Figures obtained by the BBC show the scale of the increase in interest in smaller scale wind energy developments.
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The same has been the case with commercial scale wind power in Denmark.
Private equity funds and investment banks acquire hundred-million-dollar-plus equity stakes in utility-scale wind farms and solar tax equity funds.
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Mr Wheelhouse said only 21% of planning applications for large-scale wind farms considered by government-appoint planning officials in 2012-13 were approved.
The department said Chinese exporters were selling utility-scale wind towers in the at margins 45 to 70 percent cheaper than their U.S. counterparts.
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As a result, transmission constraints in the United States and the European Union are threatening to table large-scale wind and solar energy projects under development.
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For example, big-scale wind farmers who claim Section 45 renewable energy production tax credits would get a three-year extension, meaning they could claim the credits for facilities in operation by the end of 2010.
When asked if they would be for or against the development of large-scale wind energy projects being built in their council area, 77% of SNP supporters, 71% of Liberal Democrat supporters, 64% of Labour supporters and 53% of Conservative supporters said they were in favour.
Even less windy states can achieve similar results, Kelley adds, thanks to low-wind and community-scale turbines.
Wind power has made significant advances in efficiency and scale in recent years, but wind-turbines are still able to handle only one of many wind-speed categories.
Most of it has been wind power, but wind is still small-scale and relatively expensive.
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The tornado was estimated to be an EF-5, the most devastating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with wind speeds exceeding 200 mph.
Tan 8, or Technical Advice Note 8, established seven strategic areas thought to be suitable as sites for developing wind energy on a large scale.
Today, he says that 29 utility scale solar, wind and geothermal projects have been approved to go on federal lands out west, all of which would provide 6, 500 megawatts of electricity.
While the residents of Samso can take advantage of their island's blustery weather, open spaces and low-population density to be carbon neutral, the success of wind energy on a global scale may come down to simple economics.
Atlantic Wind Connection CEO Mitchell believes large wind will be in full-scale development off New Jersey by around 2019.
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Success in both wind and solar energy depends on scale, or the ability to lower costs by producing large amounts.
Those teams will also be allowed unlimited out-of-season track testing, with no restrictions on the scale and speed of wind-tunnel testing.
Pernick and Wilder chart this migration over the past half decade or so by tracking several trends, including public and private sector investment, installed solar and wind capacity and similar signs of scale.
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Sinovel Wind Group Co ( SHA: 601558), another leading Chinese manufacturer in large-scale onshore, offshore and inter-tidal wind turbines, reported a net loss of 280.3 million yuan during the same period.
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The idea is to foster a combination of Linux (for large-scale software projects) and Wind River (for small, quick devices).
The Tuscaloosa tornado was later given a rating of EF4, the second-most powerful on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meaning it had wind speeds between 166 and 200 mph.
But he insisted the UK was on target to meet the expectation - set out in its renewable "roadmap" - of the scale of on-shore wind's contribution to UK energy by 2020.
It is thought too that as the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases, as it must with the continued burning of fossil fuels, the kinetic energy generation from the atmosphere will decrease thus further diminishing the amount of energy that may be sensibly extracted by wind-turbines on the very large scale.
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The Fujita scale is used to estimate the wind speed of a tornado by the damage the tornado causes.
The evidence from countries like Germany and Denmark, where wind power has been tried on a larger scale, is not encouraging.
These discussions include small-scale hydroelectric projects as well as solar and wind generators, the officials said.
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