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Wind Power News Blog: Power to the People: Southwest Windpower Unveils Most Efficient, Easy-to-Use Small Wind Turbine

LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2011 – Southwest Windpower, the world’s leading supplier of distributed wind generators, today unveiled its newest and most efficient small wind turbine—Skystream 600—which could put wind energy in thousands of homes and businesses worldwide

Unveiled at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with the backing of GE (NYSE: GE), in Las Vegas, Skystream 600 produces 74% percent more energy for commercial and residential use than its predecessor—making it the most efficient power grid-connected turbine in its class, providing an average of 7,400 kWh of clean, low-cost energy per year per household in 12 mph average annual wind speeds. Depending on the wind resource, siting and energy efficiency, a Skystream 600 could provide up to 60 percent of an average home’s energy requirements. Skystream 600 will be the first fully smart grid-enabled wind turbine when available to the public in April 2011, making it easy for consumers to connect their homes or businesses to wind-generated electricity. With its state-of-the-art interactive Skyview™ system, users can monitor exactly how much energy the wind turbine is producing from anywhere internet access is available.

Skystream 600 is part of GE’s “home of the future” exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show, which showcases innovative products designed to help consumers manage home energy generation, cost and consumption. As the country’s leading supplier of large wind turbines, GE invested in Southwest Windpower, the world’s largest supplier of small wind systems, in early 2009 through its energy investing arm, GE Energy Financial Services. As part of GE's ecomagination clean energy business strategy to drive growth and solve the world’s energy challenges, GE has committed to invest $10 billion in clean technology R&D by 2015, doubling the amount it spent in the past five years.

Southwest Windpower, based in Flagstaff, Arizona, was founded more than 20 years ago, has 170,000 units installed worldwide and sells 15,000 turbines annually. Over the past four years, Southwest Windpower has grown 3.5 times in annual sales volume. More than 13 million homes in the United States could install a wind turbine. With the development of lower-cost, more efficient systems, Southwest Windpower plans for exponential growth over the next five years.

Wind Energy News Blog: Indonesia Begins Embracing Wind Power

Indonesia, the world's fourth most populated nation, is about to begin developing wind energy. The country's first large-scale wind farm be built in Sukabumi . The country's first large-scale wind turbines plant will be built in Sukabumi, West Java, later this year this with a total capacity of 30 megawatts, according to a news report in The Jakarta Post.

Many foreign and local investors have expressed interest in developing renewable energy in Indonesia, Luluk said, adding he hopes the construction of Indonesia's first large-scale wind-generated power plant in Sukabumi will stimulate further investment.

According to the Global Wind Energy Council, Indonesia wants to build 255 MW of wind turbines capacity by 2025. With approximately 243 million people, Indonesia trails only China, India and the US in terms of population. The south-east Asian tropical republic is made up of more than 17,500 islands. According to a 2009 estimate in the CIA's World Factbook, Indonesia imports 456,700 barrels of oil each day.

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