by Admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Green Energy
In Iowa, 3.18 million people and all of their industry use an estimated 46 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity a year. A 2014 report by the state’s energy commission reported that 23 coal-powered plants produced the majority of that energy, approximately 36 TWh. But...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Green Energy, Sustainability
Over the past 40 years, advances in adapting wind energy technology and improvements in predicting wind conditions have created significant growth in the use of wind turbines for electricity. A new report published in Applied Physics Reviews takes stock of where the...
by Admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Environmental hazards, Green Energy
Wind turbines don’t produce greenhouse gases like burning fossil fuels, but they aren’t perfect. They are, unfortunately, responsible for hundreds of thousands of bird and bat deaths. The birds and bats are killed either by the blades themselves or by the pressure...
by Admin | Nov 28, 2014 | Articles, Green Energy
Earlier this month, global investment firm KKR, in partnership with Temporis Capital LLP, announced that it would be providing an 8 million pound loan to the Sròndoire Community Wind Farm in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. According to Recharge, “US investment firm KKR and...
