Can a relative newcomer seriously challenge the Europeans, who have dominated the wind electricity business in the past 40 years?
But those cold winter days do happen to coincide with there being no usable wind generated electricity at all.
For example, wind farms produce electricity only when the wind is blowing.
But do not confuse harvesters of sun and wind with electricity plutocrats.
There are ample wind resources in the U.S. that could replace some of the oil imports, but not enough eagerness needed to harvest the wind for electricity.
Suzlon Energy makes the machinery that turns wind into electricity.
Wind turbines can only supply electricity when the wind blows, and as long as inexpensive energy storage remains elusive, utility companies will have to combine wind with a resource that can be banked in reserve, like gas.
The completed link will be capable of supplying more than 1.5 million households with wind-generated electricity.
The wind farm supplies electricity directly to the network while simultaneously feeding a pumping unit that stores water in reservoir dam.
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There was no wind-generated electricity, and we didn't have the nation's most advanced building and appliance efficiency standards as we later adopted.
Realizing that the electric car market might not take off as quickly as expected, A123 also made forays into other markets, such as developing energy storage systems to bank wind or solar electricity.
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SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- The rush for "green power" is gathering pace in Australia, where power producers and distributors are committing more funds to wind-generated electricity that they hope will cut greenhouse gas emissions.
If he came here to Iowa, he might know that 20 percent of Iowa's electricity now comes from wind energy. (Applause.) Over the past 4 years, America has doubled its -- the amount of electricity that is produced from wind, and this is enough to power 13 million homes with clean and renewable energy.
Yet wind is far from a perfect source of electricity, since the wind blows when and where it will.
In 2007, nearly one-third of all the wind turbines in China were deliberately idled because a saturated power grid lacked spare capacity to carry any electricity the remote wind farms would have produced to consumer markets.
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Some foresee hybrid wind-gas and solar-gas plants, with gas producing electricity when sun and wind are weak.
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Now, in comparison, Denmark produces almost 20% of their electricity through wind power.
The central focus of carbon dioxide restrictions will be replacing coal and natural gas electricity with wind and solar power.
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Cornwall can already produce more than 80 megawatts (MW) of electricity from wind, hydro-electric, solar and other renewable energy sources.
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We entered the wind business in the late 1990s, when a wind-turbine company asked us to provide electricity from its site when the wind wasn't blowing.
And states that generate lots of electricity from wind have also gotten a jump on attracting factories, including Texas (35), Colorado (16), California (15) and Iowa (9).
Utilities want those power plants to store solar energy so it can be used to balance a power grid increasingly supplied by intermittent sources of electricity like wind farms.
As well as using wind turbines to provide electricity, and straw-burning plants to provide heating, some islanders have solar panels on their roofs and others warm their homes using geothermal energy and the heat given off by fresh cow's milk.
The rest amounted to little more than extensions and expansions of current policy that would have to be approved by Congress, including doubling the tax credit for producers who make electricity from wind, biomass and landfill methane, the Gore campaign said.
Long-term, policy analysts say, coal's comeback will inevitably fall foul of EU environmental policy, which calls for a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels by 2020 and a growing role for solar, wind and biomass in electricity generation.
For example, Lisa McNeilly, a collaborator on the report, said it might be cheaper for a rural town that currently does not have electricity to construct a wind or solar energy facility in the village instead of wiring in electricity from a power plant located a hundred miles away.
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The market for wind power has been buffeted by low electricity demand, low natural gas prices (which make wind power comparatively more expensive) and a tough financing environment.
Electricity can be produced by wind, sunlight, biomass or nuclear reactors, and cars can be powered by biofuels and electricity.
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