Energy Department Breaks Ground on Turbine Test Facility

The Energy Department joined with Texas Tech University and the department's Sandia National Laboratories on July 17 to break ground on a new state-of-the-art wind turbine test facility in Lubbock, Texas. Supported by a $2.6 million investment from the department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWIFT) facility will be the first public facility of its kind to use multiple wind turbines to measure how wind turbine wakes interact with one another in a wind farm. Scheduled to begin operation later this year, the facility will help wind turbine designers and manufacturers continue to drive down the cost of wind energy by reducing the aerodynamic losses of wind energy plants, enhancing energy capture, and mitigating turbine damage.

Along with the ability to monitor wind plant performance, the SWIFT facility will have additional advanced testing and monitoring capabilities, as well as space for up to ten wind turbines, allowing researchers to examine how larger wind farms can become more productive and collaborative. The facility, which will host both open-source and proprietary research, is the result of a partnership between the department's Sandia National Laboratories, the Texas Tech University Wind Science and Engineering Research Center, Group NIRE, and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas. The site will initially be equipped with two research-scale wind turbines provided by the Energy Department and a third installed by Vestas Technology R&D in Houston. See the DOE Progress Alert and the Wind Program website.

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Biomass cogeneration facility opens at the site of Ministry of energy

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The Department of energy and Ameresco, Inc. marks the successful operational launch of a new $ 795 million biomass-powered cogeneration plant at DOE's Savannah River site (SRS) in Aiken, South Carolina, on 12 March. The 20-megawatt project an estimated 800 jobs created, and if it is full, the plant will employ 25 full time jobs locally and supports the logging of the local community. The facility replaces a deterioration and inefficient 1950s years era coal power plant and oil fired boiler and is estimated at 944 million dollars in savings in fuel costs in the next 20 years and generate costs for operation and maintenance. Biomass, consisting of local forest residue and wood chips, and bio-fuels are the primary source of energy for the tech renewable energy facility, which burn the capacity annually has residue 385,000 tons forest. The projects "renewable" the 2012 renewable energy World Excellence was also in renewable energy Awardfor biomass project of the year. SRS dedicated a DOE's industrial complex environment key management and cleanup to nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship and nuclear materials disposition in support of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation efforts.

The project is also the largest renewable energy savings performance of specific contract (ESPC) in U.S. history. DOE 20 years fixed price with Ameresco, a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy companies in 2009 to fund, design contract one, construct, operate, maintain and fuel pump the new biomass website. ESPCs are contracts in which private companies, finance, install and wait new and water energy-efficient equipment for federal facilities. The Government pays no up-front, and the company investment in the course of time by the Agency from the cost savings generated will be returned by the new instrument. This makes it possible for the Government with the private sector buy more energy-efficient systems and improve the energy efficiency of their facilities without additional cost to the agency or the tax payers. Find the SRS press release and Ameresco press release.

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Biomass facility is committed to the roof energy solar farm in Mattawa, Ontario

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MATTAWA, ON--(Marketwire - 05/27/11) - today announced BioSila Canada Corp., they have an agreement with seat in Toronto Atlantic wind & Solar Inc. (pinksheets: AWSL - News), to a 500 kW solar system on the roof of one of their biomass fuel to integrate production sites entered.

BioSila Chairman, Mr John Mumlek, comments, "as part of our commitment to preserve the environment by using our 200,000 square feet was Mattawa facility on the roof for a solar energy park in an obvious choice, and is directly in line with our entire business model."

Under the terms of the agreement, the energy is produced the solar system at the power authority, within the framework of programme Feed-In tariff provinces Ontario are sold.

The system is expected in the next 20 years, that enough solar power generation in makes about a hundred local houses, and the emissions of over 10,350 tonnes CO2 harmful gases in the Earth's atmosphere is balanced. (The equivalent of 50,000 trees plants).

The BioSila complex, is located in the North-Eastern Ontario, fuel will produce 252,000 tons of European standard, power plant-grade, wood pellets for the industrial, commercial and residential biomass energy markets with the most modern production facilities. The new production facility to the year 2012 opened.

The company plans, a 10-megawatt cogeneration plant at the site, integrate that green also part of energy initiative will be program.

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