Browsing by Subject "wind energy"

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How Green is Wind Energy?
(The Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law, 2012-12-19) Taylor, Melinda E.
Incentives for Wind Energy and the Fiscal Cliff
(The Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law, 2012-12-26) Perry, David
An integrated energy storage scheme for a dispatchable solar and wind powered energy system
(American Institute of Physics, 2011-07-05) Garrison, Jared B.; Webber, Michael E.; Garrison, Jared B.; Webber, Michael E.
This research analyzed an integrated energy system that includes a novel configuration of wind and solar coupled with two storage methods to make both wind and solar sources dispatchable during peak demand, thereby enabling their broader use. Named DSWiSS for Dispatchable Solar and Wind Storage System, the proposed system utilizes compressed air energy storage (CAES) that is driven from wind energy and thermal storage supplied by concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) in order to achieve firm power from intermittent, renewable sources. Although DSWiSS mimics the operation of a typical CAES facility, the replacement of energy derived from fossil fuels with energy generated from renewable resources makes this system unique. West Texas is a useful geographical testbed for this system because it has abundant co-located wind and solar resources; it has competitive electricity markets, which give producers an economic incentive to store night-time wind energy in order to be sold during peak price times; and it has a significant number of locations with geological formations suitable for CAES. Through a thermodynamic and a levelized lifetime cost analysis, the power system performance and the cost of energy are estimated for this integrated wind-solar-storage system. We calculate that the combination of these components yields an energy efficiency of 46% for the CAES main power block, and the overall system cost is only slightly more expensive per unit of electricity generated than the current technologies employed today.
New York Throws Struggling Nuclear Generators a Lifeline, but Their Long-Term Survival Remains Uncertain
(2016-08-05) Webb, Romany
Renewable Energy in Texas
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997-06) Hoffner, John
Examination of the production potential and demand in Texas for renewable energy from three sources: solar photovoltaic cells, wind and bioenergy.
Ride Like the Wind: Selected Issues in Multi-Party Wind Lease Negotiations
(The Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law, 2014-11-05) Wetsel, Rod E.; DeWolf, Steven K.
The large-scale wind industry arrived in Texas in the early years of the twenty-first century with the intensity of a spring tornado. It was a welcome relief to farmers and ranchers beset by years of no rain and falling prices, and they lined up in droves to hear about and sign new wind leases. It was a new dawn for energy lawyers too. Gone were the days of one-on-one representation in the leasing of land. The new era required landowner attorneys to represent dozens or perhaps hundreds of people at a time. This is the story of the issues and challenges brought by the concurrent rise of wind development and multi-party wind lease negotiations in Texas.