The total estimated offshore wind potential for the US is 4, 100 Gigawatts (GW), or approximately four times the size of the total US power system.
The Department of Energy, as part of its efforts to promote clean energy, launched OpenEI.org, containing dozens of clean energy resources and data sets, including maps of worldwide solar and wind potential, information on climate zones, and energy best practices.
North Carolina boasts more offshore wind power potential than any other state on the East Coast, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Up to 15 percent of our potential wind energy resources are on Native American land, and the potential for solar energy is even higher.
Waterfall added that FloDesign's low-wind technology has the potential not only to revolutionize wind-power technology, but also to make wind-power a viable energy solution for New England's energy needs.
While tidal power got to the grid first, offshore wind has the potential to create a great deal more electricity.
Onshore wind, another potential disruptive technology, is already cost competitive in many part of the world at 9-10 cents per kilowatt-hour, says Petros Paranikas, a BCG partner and co-author or the report.
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Asked about the government's strategy, Mr Davey said on-shore wind farms with potential generating capacity of a seven gigawatts (GW) were currently seeking planning consent, in addition to eleven gigawatts of plant either already built or approved.
Environmentalists also see potential for wind power generation along the coast, where windmills on islands could supply some big cities.
This technique dramatically extends the potential of wind-up power, and brings more power-hungry devices, such as the landmine detector, within its scope.
And each new wind farm has the potential to create hundreds of construction jobs, and dozens of permanent local jobs in communities just like Fort Madison.
Wind energy alone has the potential to generate in excess of 600 exajoules annually.
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Three of the seven areas chosen by the Welsh government as potential sites for wind farms are in Powys.
Nevertheless, to help wind and solar reach their potential, the president would pay for their tax breaks by ending some incentives given to oil and gas.
The Atlantic Wind Connection would take place over at least 10 years and would have the potential of delivering 7, 000 megawatts of wind energy to states along the East Coast, some of which have set renewable portfolio standards.
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While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.
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So far, there are lease agreements for offshore wind power up to 2020 with a potential capacity of 10 gigawatts.
It was a chance remark that led Prof Racey and Dr Nicholls down the route of exploring radars as a potential deterrent to bats around wind turbines.
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The Renewable Energy Commission has also been looking at the potential for offshore tidal and wind power, which Deputy Duhamel said could play a significant role in improving the island's energy security in the future.
Among all the energy-supply technologies, the three with the biggest potential today are solar power, wind power and nuclear power.
The Nature Conservancy is examining potential effects from gas drilling and wind turbines on an eight-state region from New York to Tennessee.
Wind tends to blow more forcefully and uniformly over the ocean than on land, providing the potential for increased electricity generation and smoother, steadier operation than land-based wind power systems.
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Secretary Sullivan explained that these two areas alone contain the potential for 9, 000 MW of wind energy.
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As August starts to wind down, the market remains focused on the potential for more monetary easing from the Federal Open Market Committee, several traders said.
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In the next decade meeting our existing renewables and efficiency targets would safely close any "energy gap" we might face and cut emissions, while leaving plenty of potential to expand clean energy solutions like wind, tidal and solar even further later.
As we continue to think greener and smarter, we'll see new possibilities, like the long-term power-generating potential of an intact Appalachian mountaintop with wind turbines vs. chopping it to pieces for a few years' worth of burnable coal and centuries of environmental devastation.
Of the various technologies available, bioenergy is assessed as having the biggest long-term potential for growth, followed by solar and wind power.
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To that end, the federal agencies are analyzing the potential at 12 places around the country for wind, solar and small hydro development.
They are a pretty basic technology, they are a one hit, while if we develop lagoons, if we develop other forms of tidal and wave and other ways of extracting the energy from the water and the wind then I think we've got a great potential export trade.
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