{"id":341668,"date":"2010-02-19T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-6917288303530521486"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:56:56","slug":"norway-plans-10-mw-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341668","title":{"rendered":"Norway Plans 10 MW Wind Turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent has an article on Norwegian plans to set a new record for wind turbine size &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-change\/norway-plans-the-worlds-most-powerful-wind-turbine-1900807.html\">Norway plans the world&#8217;s most powerful wind turbine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norway plans to build the world&#8217;s most powerful wind turbine, hoping the new technology will increase the profitability of costly offhsore wind farms, partners behind the project said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>With a rotor diametre of 145 metres (475 feet), the 10-megawatt protype will be roughly three times more powerful than ordinary wind turbines currently in place, Enova, a public agency owned by Norway&#8217;s petroleum and oil industry ministry, said.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest wind turbine, 162.5 metres (533 feet) tall, will be built by Norwegian company Sway with the objective of developing a technology that will result in higher energy generation for offshore wind power.<\/p>\n<p>It will first be tested on land in Oeygarden, southwestern Norway, for two years.<\/p>\n<p>The gain in power over current turbines will be obtained partly by reducing the weight and the number of moving parts in the turbine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NTB news agency, the prototype will cost 400 million kroner to build and could supply power to 2,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aiming to install it in 2011,&#8221; Enova&#8217;s head of new technology Kjell Olav Skoelsvik told AFP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-6917288303530521486?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eP25JUhw6NFf3X1Bvo5KN7FQCu8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eP25JUhw6NFf3X1Bvo5KN7FQCu8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eP25JUhw6NFf3X1Bvo5KN7FQCu8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eP25JUhw6NFf3X1Bvo5KN7FQCu8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent has an article on Norwegian plans to set a new record for wind turbine size &#8211; Norway plans the world&#8217;s most powerful wind turbine. Norway plans to build the world&#8217;s most powerful wind turbine, hoping the new technology will increase the profitability of costly offhsore wind farms, partners behind the project said Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}