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Rank	Name	Rating	Info
	Airstreams Renewables, Inc. (California)		Review Visit Site
	Texas State Technical College (West Texas)		Review Visit Site
	Northwest Renewable Energy Institute		Review Visit Site
	Mesalands Community College		Review Visit Site

Worlds largest wind turbine – Enova of Norway

Posted by WindSmiths on February 18th, 2010

Norway is working on its prototype flagship wind turbine, one that would be the worlds largest with the rotor a shocking 475′ and measuring 533′ tall. This is a true monster that will be able to blow in near 10-megawatts, which is roughly 3 times the amount of energy than that of todays wind turbines. They hope to have the unit installed in 2011, with 2 years of testing to follow. Unit will cost a whopping $23 million USD and should be a huge milestone for offshore wind energy.

Wind School Reviews

Posted by WindSmiths on February 11th, 2010

After much anticipation and waiting, we now have up the wind turbine school and technical college reviews section. If you were a student of a wind turbine school or took a wind energy course, please take the time to post a review of that school or program. Read, write and help! Click here to be taken to the list of schools or you can select the state in which the school was located in from the list below:
Wind Schools and Programs by state:
California Colorado Delaware Idaho Illinois Iowa Kansas Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Montana Nebraska New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Dakota Texas Virginia Washington Wisconsin Wyoming

Wind Energy Growth Over The Past Decade

Posted by WindSmiths on February 9th, 2010

Just a fun image found put out by the Department Of Energy, showing the massive growth in wind energy from 12/31/1999 to 4/30/09.
Growth in the Wind Energy Sector from 1999-2009

Horns Reef Offshore Wind Energy Farm

Posted by WindSmiths on February 6th, 2010

Video showing two Wind Turbine technicians being picked up after maintenance to a Vestas turbine. Horns Reef was the first wind farm built out at sea, the North Sea. The farm is comprised of 80 Vestas V80-2.0 MW and 91 more Siemens SWP 2.3-93 turbines for a total production capacity rated at 369mw, enough energy to power as many as 350,000 homes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fndv4qDfKcc