Re: [GBlist] News on Wind Energy

["Steven Shepard" <sbtdesigns@earthlink.net>]

On page 129 and 130 of our Solar Electric Products catalog we list four
different starter (or solar generator) systems starting at 1kW and up to
10kW.  There are similar listings inside for wind systems.  These are
complete kits that I can easily recommend.

SBT Designs
25840 IH-10 West #1
Boerne, Texas 78006
210-698-7109
FAX: 210-698-7147
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----- Original Message -----
From: "michael" <compostnow@telus.net>
To: "Sarah Holland/David Foley" <hollandfoley@acadia.net>; "Greenbuilding"
<greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [GBlist] News on Wind Energy


> does anyone know the best yet relatively affordable starter packages for
> wind and solar power?....i would like to start with a small package of
each
> to set up in our back yard and learn the systems....then either add/expand
> on them or evolve to bigger systems
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarah Holland/David Foley" <hollandfoley@acadia.net>
> To: "Greenbuilding" <greenbuilding@crest.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:50 AM
> Subject: [GBlist] News on Wind Energy
>
>
> FYI
> ---
>
> > Published on Wednesday, January 16, 2002 by Inter Press Service
> >
> > Wind Is Fastest Growing Power Sector
> >
> > by Danielle Knight
> >
> >
> > WASHINGTON - Electricity generated by wind power worldwide jumped 31
> percent
> > last year, making it the fastest growing part of the energy sector,
> according
> > to new estimates by industry and environmentalists.
> >
> > The Washington-based Earth Policy Institute says global wind electric
> > generating capacity rose from 17,800 megawatts in 2000 to 23,300
megawatts
> in
> > 2001 - enough to satisfy the needs of 23 million people.
> >
> > ''Abundant, inexhaustible, and cheap, wind promises to become the
> foundation
> > of the new energy economy,'' says Lester Brown, president of the
advocacy
> > group. Since 1995, world wind-generating capacity has increased by 487
> > percent, he adds.
> >
> > Environmentalists like Brown have been strong supporters of wind energy
> > because unlike nuclear and fossil fuels, wind does not produce
pollutants,
> > heat-trapping greenhouse gases, or hazardous wastes.
> >
> > According to the European Wind Energy Association, a Brussels- based
> industry
> > group, wind-generating capacity in Europe has increased by about 40
> percent
> > per year for the past six years.
> >
> > ''Today, wind energy projects across Europe produce enough electricity
to
> meet
> > the domestic needs of five million people,'' says a statement by the
> > association.
> >
> > One megawatt of wind-generating capacity typically will satisfy the
> > electricity needs of 350 households in an industrial society, or roughly
> 1,000
> > people.
> >
> > Germany leads the world in wind power capacity with 8,000 megawatts,
> nearly
> > one-third of the total. It added 1,890 megawatts in 2001.
> >
> > The United States, which launched a modern wind power industry in the
west
> > coast state of California in the early 1980s, is second with 4,150
> megawatts.
> > It added 1,600 megawatts in 2001, a 63 percent jump in generating
capacity
> > since 2000.
> >
> > Wind power is one of the cheapest methods of generating electricity in
the
> > United States, according to calculations by the Earth Policy Institute.
> The
> > cost of wind-generated electricity has fallen from 35 cents per
> kilowatt-hour
> > in the mid-1980s to four cents per kilowatt-hour at prime wind sites in
> 2001,
> > it says.
> >
> > Spain is in third place, with 3,300 megawatts coming from wind power.
> Denmark,
> > fourth in line with 2,500 megawatts, now gets 18 percent of its
> electricity
> > from wind.
> >
> > As a result of the increase in wind power generation, investment in wind
> > turbine manufacture and wind development has been highly profitable.
> >
> > ''While high-tech firms as a group suffered a disastrous fall in sales,
> > earnings, and stock value in 2001, sales in the wind industry soared,''
> says
> > Brown.
> >
> > At the Danish-based firm Nordex, one of the world's largest turbine
> > manufacturers, for example, turnover during the first nine months of
2001
> was
> > up 19 percent and new orders were up 56 percent.
> >
> > Despite this recent surge, Brown says development of the Earth's wind
> > resources has barely begun.
> >
> > ''In densely populated Europe, there is enough easily accessible
offshore
> wind
> > energy to meet all of the region's electricity needs,'' he says.
> >
> > Wind-generated energy capacity is expected to continue to grow in the
> future.
> > The European Wind Energy Association recently revised its 2010 wind
> capacity
> > projections for Europe from 40,000 megawatts to 60,000 megawatts. The
> American
> > Wind Energy Association points out that 60,000 megawatts is equivalent
to
> 20
> > to 25 new 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants.
> >
> > France announced in December 2000 that it would develop 5,000 megawatts
of
> > wind-generating capacity during this decade.
> >
> > Offshore wind projects are now very popular in many countries in Europe.
> Early
> > in 2001, Britain sold offshore lease rights for an estimated 1,500 of
> > wind-generating capacity to several different bidders, including Shell
> Oil.
> >
> > Ireland approved plans last week for the construction of the world's
> largest
> > offshore wind farm, with 520 megawatts of energy output, to be built on
a
> > sandbank in the Irish Sea south of Dublin. When completed, the 200
> turbines
> > are expected to produce 10 percent of the country's electricity needs.
> >
> > ''Today heralds the dawning of a new age of clean, green energy,
harvested
> > from two plentiful renewable sources, the sea and the wind,'' said Frank
> > Fahey, Ireland's Marine Minister, at a lease signing ceremony in Dublin.
> >
> > In the United States, wind power has been growing ''by leaps and
bounds,''
> > according to Brown. The 300-megawatt Stateline Wind Project under
> construction
> > on the border between the western states of Oregon and Washington will
be
> the
> > world largest ''wind farm.''
> >
> > Several developing countries have also jumped on the wind power
bandwagon.
> > Argentina said it would develop 3,000 megawatts of wind- generating
> capacity
> > in Patagonia.
> >
> > A report from Beijing in May indicated that China would develop up to
> 2,500
> > megawatts of wind-generating capacity by 2005. Earth Policy Institute's
> Brown
> > says China could easily double its current electricity generation from
> wind
> > power alone.
> >
> > Wind power advocates argue that governments need to do more to encourage
> wind
> > farms and other renewable energy sources.
> >
> > U.S. President George W. Bush's proposed national energy strategy, a
> version
> > of which passed by the House of Representatives, for example, calls for
> > extending federal wind energy production tax credit and for a review of
> > previously proposed cuts in federal renewable energy research and
> development
> > funding.
> >
> > But environmentalists and the wind industry argue that the energy plan
> focuses
> > too much on fossil fuels, especially coal, even though world coal use
has
> > declined some 11 percent since 1996. Further action, they say, is needed
> to
> > develop a serious wind energy agenda.
> >
> > ''There is still much to be done if we are to have an energy policy that
> is
> > truly balanced among conventional energy sources, efficiency, and
> > renewables,'' says Randall Swisher, executive director of the American
> Wind
> > Energy Association.
> >
> > Copyright 2002 IPS
>
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