Articles by
Paul Gipe
Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application
By
Paul Gipe
It’s been many years since the publication of new engineering texts on wind energy. But in 2001 a flood of ... Read more
Wind Energy Handbook
By
Paul Gipe
The Wind Energy Handbook is one of a trio of big wind energy books by John Wiley & Sons’UK office. ... Read more
Wind Power Plants: Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation by R. Gasch, J. Twele
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Paul Gipe
The book, edited by Robert Gasch, began as course notes for Gasch’s popular course on wind turbine design for engineering ... Read more
Cost-effective Design & Operation of Variable Speed Wind Turbines: Closing the Gap between Control Engineering & the Wind Engineering Community by David-Pieter Molenaar
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Paul Gipe
“Free, and Still too Expensive” opens Molenaar’s doctoral thesis on designing variable speed wind turbines. Molenaar’s work is not for ... Read more
Winds of Change: A comparative study of the politics of wind energy innovation in California and Denmark
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Paul Gipe
Winds of Change by Rinie van Est is a masterly work of meticulous research that could well become a classic ... Read more
A Simple and Reliable Tool to Optimize Sustainable Energy Programmes: the Profitability Index Method (PIM)
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Paul Gipe
Related Files chabotpimethod-pdf
Thoughts on Doing It Yourself
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Paul Gipe
Adapted from the book Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business. When I wrote my first book ... Read more
Community Wind:The Third Way
By
Paul Gipe
Portions of the following have been adapted from Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business, published ... Read more
Man Falls to Death from E66 in Germany
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Paul Gipe
On October 16, 2003 a 25-year old technician fell inside a 100-meter tall Enercon E66 tower, struck his head, and died according to an account in a local German newspaper. The man, unnamed in the Prinzitger Zeitung article, was performing warranty service on a ladder when he fell.
Electricity Feed Laws Power European Renewables
By
Paul Gipe
Unlike tax credits, feed laws don’t lead to the boom and bust
cycle common to the North American wind industry
Summary of Power Curves Measured at the Wulf Test Field
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Paul Gipe
December 8, 2003 by Paul Gipe For an explantion of the following chart see the article on measuring power curves. ... Read more
Sierra Club Wind Siting Advisory Document
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Paul Gipe
Note: The Sierra Club is a grass roots or member-driven environmental organization in the United States founded by the ... Read more
