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Texas now employs 25,000 in the wind industry and generates more than one-quarter of all wind power in the US – all thanks to its high wind speeds, efficient infrastructure and supportive policies. Wind powered the equivalent of more than 7 million homes in Texas in 2018.
Wind power is the largest source of renewable energy in the US, generating nearly half of the total. Texas produces far more than any other state, followed by Iowa, Oklahoma and Kansas. Just 10 states have no wind power capacity, all in the southeast. Record-breaking turbine installations in 2020 and 2021 increased US wind energy generation by 30%.
Since underwater turbines work like wind turbines (both react to the fluid motion of water and air, respectively), NREL plans to predict the performance of SHARK projects using data from OpenFAST, an open-source wind turbine simulation tool. However, there's a minor glitch: water is much denser than air.
Tallying the true costs of wind. Depending on which factors are included, estimates for the cost of wind power vary wildly. On the low end, the financial advisory firm Lazard claims wind costs $59 per megawatt-hour. On the high side, Michael Giberson at the Center for Energy Commerce at Texas Tech University suggests the it’s closer to $149 ...
The newly developed Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor will undergo more research and testing to see what is possible with these resilient wind turbines and how they could also impact traditional upwind turbines. The study authors are already modeling large-scale offshore wind turbines, although they have not yet tested them.
China tops the list of countries in terms of the amount of energy produced by wind turbines, exceeding 100 terawatt-hours (TWh). Given its relatively small size, the UK has made great strides with wind power, investing heavily in giant turbines situated in offshore wind farms.
The trees stand at over 9 metres tall and 7 metres wide, sporting a total of 54 green leaf-turbines that can capture up to 5.4 kilowatts of energy at a time and produce around 2,400 kWh annually. New Wind estimates the trees could meet half of the average French household’s annual energy needs or run a small, low-consumption office.
Wind turbines work best in large expanses of land without trees, buildings or other obstructions. States like Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois are leading the nation in wind energy, and coastal states such as Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey have invested heavily in offshore wind power, a promising avenue for growth.
Run by Danish energy company Ørsted, which pioneered the first offshore wind farms 30 years ago, Hornsea 2’s 165 wind turbines are sited next to its older sibling Hornsea 1 - and together they can power 2.5 million homes, contributing to the UK government’s goal of 50 GW in offshore wind capacity by 2030.
Author: Maurizio Collu is a lecturer at the Offshore Renewable Energy Centre at Cranfield University. Michael Borg is currently carrying out postdoctoral research within the Department of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark on floating vertical axis wind turbine concepts. Image: An artist’s impression of future wind turbines.