News & Articles on Wind Energy
This is an archive of articles and news on both large and small wind turbines, wind energy & the environment, and links to topics on the history of wind energy.
I’ve been working with wind energy since 1976 and my professional experience in the subject runs the gamut from wind resource assessment to installing and testing small wind turbines. I continue to follow the industry and analyze its growth and increasing contribution to renewable electricity generation worldwide.
Explanation for FloWind Blade Failures by an Eyewitness
By
Paul Gipe
Because of my critical articles on Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines, Wind Harvest’s Kevin Wolf contacted me with background on what failed …
Niels Borre’s Checkered Past Landed in California’s Salinas Valley
By
Paul Gipe
I fell down another rabbit hole when Klaus Rockenbauer at Global-Windphotos posted images of a group of mystery wind turbines …
Mystery Wind Turbines of the Salinas Valley Wind Rush–Solved
By
Paul Gipe
During the heyday of the Great California Wind Rush in the early to mid 1980s, there were a handful of …
38th Annual Windmill-Wildflower Hike Planned for Tehachapi 18 May 2024
By
Paul Gipe
Tehachapi Windmill-Wildflower Hike 2024 38th hike Paul Gipe and Georgette Theotig will lead a hike among the wind turbines on …
Yes, wind turbines kill birds. But fracking is much worse
By
Sammy Roth
It’s also why journalists should avoid treating bird deaths at wind farms as unforgivable sins, rather than as nasty side effects of renewable energy development that we should work hard to minimize but likely can’t avoid entirely. As part of his study, Katovich used the International Newsstream database to run a comparison. He found that in 2020, major U.S. news outlets published 173 stories about the effects of wind farms on birds — and just 46 stories on fracking impacts. I wrote last week that it’s time to see the world through climate-colored goggles. That’s true for the media as much as anyone.
Wind Power Plants and Wind Farms Definitions
By
Paul Gipe
In recent correspondence with colleagues, I noted the unfortunate reoccurrence of the term “wind parks” to describe wind farms or …
