Wind and Renewables Driving Change in Our Global Power System

Renewable energy is growing not only here in Ireland, with wind energy leading the way, but globally. This video from the World Economic Forum and Bloomberg gives a clear snapshot of the positive growth and lower costs, which renewable energy including wind will bring. Ireland today, has enough wind energy capacity to power over 1.5m…

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UK Wildlife Charity, the RSPB Shows Off Its New Wind Turbine in Timelapse Video

Following years of planning and research, the UK wildlife protection charity, the RSPB has now installed their own wind turbine at their headquarters. The turbine was built in just a few days and will now generate half of the RSPB’s total electricity needs across all of their 127 UK locations. Its a new clean energy…

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Wind Energy & Wings! Not one to try at home!

While not something we’d be trying, this is a pretty impressive video of a redbull air-race pilot slalom-ing his way through an Austrian wind farm. Not a travel option for the faint hearted! The full article and video are available below https://au.sports.yahoo.com/a/31291484/red-bull-air-race-hannes-arch-flies-through-wind-farm-turbines/

Power to Power Ourselves Campaign Launches

Today, Monday 4th January has seen the launch of our new campaign in support of Irish Wind Energy and to highlight the power we have in Ireland to power ourselves with a range of renewables. Did you know we import 85% of our energy? Did you know these imports cost us €15.6m every single day?…

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Something windy to make you laugh – Mr. W

We like a good laugh here at Windfacts, and so we love this short video, which shows a different side to wind energy.

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