China to increase spending on Renewable energy

China is one of the worlds biggest polluters, but in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels China is to spend UK£4 billion (US$6.32 billion). The Gansu region of China is often extremely windy and is now being used to provide energy via wind turbines, roughly up to 36 wind turbines are being installed each day across the country.

Wind farm in the Gansu region of China

This move to wind energy has given the Jiuquan region an area of the Gansu province 6GW of wind energy, which in comparison is the same as the whole of the UK. China hope to increase capacity by tripling this figure by 2015, and by 2020 the Country hope to supply 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources. Read more ...

Company developed new tool for measuring wind turbine performance

Aeolus Power (Wind-Energy) Limited a Wind turbine supplier and installer has developed a new tool called TOPAZ, which will allow users to check the performance data on their machines which is updated every hour. It includes average wind speed over the last hour, the peak wind speed over the last 24 hours, the power being generated and cumulative power generation since installation.

Director of Aeolus Power, Christine Griffiths, said: “We have been testing TOPAZ over the past months and it provides a much sought after our service to our customers. Once a wind turbine has been installed what the owner really wants to know is ‘How is it performing’? Our customers now have access to that information 24 hours a day.” TOPAZ will be launched at the Renewable Energy event in Exeter this week. Read more ...