wind

MCS (Microgeneration Certification Scheme), has welcomeed the first certified small wind product in more than four years. Ryse Energy’s G-11 wind turbine, certified through product Certification Body the British Board of Agrément (BBA), has become the only MCS-certified wind product currently on the Scheme. With applications in agriculture, as well as commercial and community energy […]

BBC broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham(pictured right) speaks out in an interview for the Heating and Hotwater Industry’s publication the HHIC Journal on the controversial subject of wind farms. 2012 was a good year for the performance of renewable energy generation and most of this growth was down to on and off shore wind farms. […]

In this month’s back-to-basics series, Cathryn Hickey, from the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies, looks at micro-wind, one of the less common forms of renewable energy. A basic wind turbine operates on the principle that wind passing across the rotor blades causes a ‘lift’ and ‘drag’ effect, which in turn makes the hub rotate. […]