The US government has backed plans for a 10MW floating offshore wind project as part of a new funding round for demonstration projects Atkins has previously helped Swedish company Hexicon to design a floating platform supporting two wind turbines Texan engineering consultancy Atkins will develop a full-scale design of a floating offshore wind platform capable [...]
Sun., December 20, 2020, 11:10 p.m. AST A new poll for Abacus Data in conjunction with Clean Energy Canada indicates 83 per cent of Atlantic Canadians want Canada to be seen as a country determined to help combat climate change. The survey results were broken into a series of reports released last week, a week [...]
December 9th, 2020 by Steve Hanley In November, we published a story from the Union of Concerned Scientists regarding the difficulty of recycling wind turbine blades. Those critical appendages have to be made super strong to withstand the rotational forces they are subjected to and the powerful winds they need to endure over their lifetime, [...]
Painting one turbine blade black reduces bird fatalities by 72%, says study This 'contrast painting' could speed up permitting of new wind farms and allow turbines to be installed in places previously thought to be too problematic, scientists argue https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/painting-one-turbine-blade-black-reduces-bird-fatalities-by-72-says-study/2-1-861643 20 August 2020 16:16 GMT Updated 30 September 2020 5:09 GMT By Leigh Collins Scientists [...]
The wind farm generated $630,000 for the city in April and May Nicola MacLeod · CBC News · Posted: Jun 17, 2020 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: June 17 Summerside Electric purchases wind-generated power from both the West Cape Wind Farm and the Summerside Wind Farm, owned by the City of Summerside. (CBC) During [...]
— is Eavor-Loop climate change's holy grail? Forget nuclear fusion — Canadian start-up says it can harness the heat emanating from the Earth's core to create affordable baseload and dispatchable power using proven technologies, writes Leigh Collins 27 October 2020 16:05 GMT Updated 2 November 2020 12:20 GMT By Leigh Collins https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/unlimited-on-demand-renewable-energy-anywhere-in-the-world-is-eavor-loop-climate-changes-holy-grail-/2-1-901385 The holy grail of [...]
By Shawn McCarthy November 13, 2020 Minister O'Regan touts hydrogen-strategy potential to create jobs and slash GHGs by 25% at Building Back Better event The federal government is set to launch a hydrogen strategy that will vault Canada into world leadership in the clean-energy market and help the country achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, [...]
By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Ottawa Insider | October 23rd 2020 The Moose Lake Wind Project northwest of Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Photo courtesy of Aeolis Wind Power Corporation Previous story Next story Want to know the exact location and specifications of every wind turbine in Canada? The federal government has you covered. Natural Resources Canada has published [...]
September 22 (Renewables Now) - Goldwind Americas has installed the first turbines at the 200-MW Canada’s Golden South wind project in Saskatchewan, developed by Potentia Renewables Inc. The unit of Chinese wind turbine maker Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology (HKG:2208) shared the news on Facebook last week. Once complete, the wind park will consist of [...]
Wind and solar capacity will double over the next five years globally and exceed that of both gas and coal, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report. The Paris-based intergovernmental agency anticipates a 1,123 gigawatt (GW) increase in wind and solar that would mean these power sources overtake gas capacity in 2023 and [...]