Tag «Wind Farm»

How to build a better wind farm

Washington, DCLocation, location, locationwhenit comes to the placement of wind turbines, the old real estate adage applies, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegies Enrico Antonini and Ken Caldeira. Turbines convert the winds kinetic energy into electrical energy as they turn. However, the very act of installing …

Keystone Engineering’s Innovative Design Delivers the First Commercial Offshore Wind Farm in U.S.

December 9, 2015 Keystone Engineering provided an innovative jacket-type support structure design for five, 6-megawatt wind turbine generators on America’s first offshore wind farm. Supplying power to Rhode Island’s Block Island and the rest of New England via subsea cable, the 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm was chosen to kick start offshore wind farms. This …