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windpower 2008
Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines: The Future of Micro Wind?
Walking the floor of WINDPOWER 2008, the annual conference and trade show for the wind energy industry, one couldn’t help but be transfixed by all of the different types of turbines – at least I couldn’t. The wind turbine has become the iconic of clean, renewable energy. But the classic three-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine, [...]
More Coverage of WINDPOWER 2008 [w/video]
My various blogging responsibilities have kept me from posting everything I’ve wanted to about WINDPOWER 2008, the American Wind Energy Association’s annual conference and trade show held in Houston two weeks back. I do have a couple more stories I am working on that will eventually be published at Green Options and here at ecopolitology, [...]
NREL Announces Wind Energy R&D Projects
[From my post originally published at CleanTechnica on 6.3.2008] Houston, TX – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab has just announced three research and development partnerships with Siemens and the University Houston. NREL Director Dan Arvizu made the announcement at a press conference on Tuesday at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual [...]
WINDPOWER 2008: Nordex to Build U.S. Production Facility
[Originally posted at CleanTechnica on 6.4.08]Houston, TX – Another large wind turbine manufacturer has decided to get in on the incredible growth in the U.S. wind energy industry by building a new manufacturing facility. The German company Nordex, announced Tuesday at WINDPOWER 2008** that it will be spending around $100 million over the next few [...]
Windpower 2008: A Texas-Sized Conference
My first day at the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA)** annual conference and exhibition in Houston has given me one more nugget of evidence that things are just a little bigger in Texas. WINDPOWER 2008 is expected to draw over 10,000 attendees over the course of the four-day event – up from 7,000 attendees at [...]
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