Welcome to Wind-Works

An on-line archive of articles and commentary primarily--but not solely--on wind energy, Feed-in Tariffs, and Advanced Renewable Tariffs.

What's New

July 25, 2008

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If you would like to join our growing list of endorsers supporting Electricity Feed Laws, Feed-in Tariffs, or Renewable Energy Payments follow this link to the North American Alliance for Renewable Energy's Endorsement Statement.

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• Gore Calls for 100% Renewable Electricity Supply in the US within 10 years
• Post Carbon Institute’s Plan to reach Al Gore’s ambitious goal of 100% Renewable Electricity in ten years (calling for feed-in tariffs)
• Tables of Renewable Tariffs or Feed-In Tariffs Worldwide: with Updated Tariff Tables for Spain, Switzerland, and Israel.
• Gipe Receives 2008 World Wind Energy Award
• Swiss Adopt Aggressive Feed Law for Renewable Energy: First Nation with Specific Tariff for Small Wind Turbines
• Michigan Governor Granholm Puts Feed-in Tariffs on State Agenda
• CEC June 30 Staff Workshop: Renewable Energy "Feed-In" Tariffs--An excellent series of documents on feed law design
• Florida: Hermann Scheer Receives Standing Ovation--Pushes Feed-in Tariffs at Governor Crist Climate Summit
• Representative Inslee Introduces US Feed-in Tariff Bill: In a groundbreaking move, Representative Jay Inslee on June 26, 2008 introduced the first national feed-in tariff bill in North America
• A Challenge Worthy of North America by Paul Gipe, WWEA Conference, Kingston, Ontario

What Can Be Found on This Site

This site contains information about my books, an archive of my articles, and descriptions of my workshops on wind energy and Advanced Renewable Tariffs. There is also contains an extensive collection of articles and technical reports on electricity feed laws or renewable energy tariffs. I've been an outspoken proponent of feed laws since since the late 1990s when I urged the American Wind Energy Association to call for them nationally.

Photography

My photos are stocked by Still Pictures in London. For more on my photography and for photo tours of several wind farms as well as a sampling of wind energy icons, see the photos section of this site.

Small Turbine Testing

From 1997 to 2003 I measured the performance of small wind turbines at the Wulf Test Field in the Tehachapi Pass. I also measured the noise emissions from these same wind turbines. For more information on this work, visit Wulf Test Field.

Previous Web Sites

My web pages have previously been hosted on the Chelsea Green web site and by the Workgroup Wind Turbines at TU-Berlin. My thanks to Michael and Sienna Potts, and to Klaus Kaiser, for their help posting my pages in the past.

Origin of Wind-Works

Since 1981, following a trip to Denmark, I've stressed the theme that wind energy does indeed work, makes economic and environmental sense, and is here to stay. Even then Denmark was a model of how successful wind energy could become--when given the opportunity. In North America at the time, there were few wind turbines and only a few of those operated well. Most simply didn't work. My slogan was as much a statement of what could be as it was a statement of fact. Today, wind turbines are commonplace throughout the world and "wind works", once a bold statement, now elicits a "What? Of course it does. Everyone knows that." And that's the way it should be.--Paul Gipe