Articles by

Paul Gipe

Windkraftanlagen Enters Third Printing

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Paul Gipe

The third printing of the 1993 book “Windkraftanlagen” (Wind Turbines) was issued by B.G. Teugner of Stuttgart in the spring ... Read more

Wind Turbine Market Overview (Windkraftanlagen 1996 Marktübersicht)

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Paul Gipe

Gesselschaft  für Windenergie to become the Bundesverband Wind Energie (German Wind Turbine Owners Association) since this article was written. In ... Read more
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Remarks by Paul Gipe at the Dedication of EDON’s Wind Plant at Eemshaven, the Netherlands

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Paul Gipe

May 29, 1996 I’d like to express my thanks to Mr. Witvliet and Mr. Jans for the invitation to join ... Read more

Remarks by Paul Gipe at the Dedication of EDON’s Wind Plant at Eemshaven, the Netherlands

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Paul Gipe

With the completion of this wind plant, events have come full circle. The flow of visitors seeking information about wind energy has reversed. The intellectual, technical, and may I say "moral" momentum has shifted from the United States to Europe.

Kenetech Windpower (U.S. Windpower) citations in Wind Energy Comes of Age

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Paul Gipe

Kenetech Windpower (U.S. Windpower), one of the world’s largest wind companies, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 1996.  Below ... Read more

Cooeperatieve Windenergie Vereniging Kennemerwind

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Paul Gipe

Kennemerwind was not the first wind cooperative in the Netherlands, but is one of the largest in number of members. (Several members of the Dutch wind fraternity own shares, including ECN's renewables director Jos Beurskens.)

Presentation by Paul Gipe to the Government of Quebec on L’Energie Eolien dans le Monde

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Paul Gipe

Ville de Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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A L’Etape de La Maturité: L’Énergie Éolienne

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Paul Gipe

L'énergie éolienne, aujourd'hui viable sur le plan commercial, peut combler une partie importante des besoins énergétiques. L'image qu'on se fait aujourd'hui de l'énergie éolienne n'a plus rien à voir avec la vision romantique du meunier aux cheveux blanchis par la farine ferlant les voiles de son moulin à vent. Cette source énergétique est devenue une réalité commerciale incontournable. Qu'il s'agisse de combler les besoins d'un nomade mongol, de paysannes puisant leur eau dans un puits au Maroc, d'un fermier du Minnesota, d'une coopérative au Danemark ou d'un travailleur de l'une des nombreuses éoliennes de Californie, l'électricité produite par la force des vents montre qu'un approvisionnement énergétique durable n'est plus un réve.
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Erosion Gullies in the Tehachapi Pass: An Example of Improper Wind Development

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Paul Gipe

  Note: This critique was originally written in 1996. Little has changed since then except on the former FloWind site ... Read more
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Community-Owned Wind Development in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands

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Paul Gipe

While the following report on a Trip to Northern Europe in 1996 is more than a decade old, much of the information remains relevant. Wind turbines are bigger and more costly today than those mentioned here, but the principles of community ownership and the attitudes of the proponents are same as they were then.

Farmer Noud de Schutter

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Paul Gipe

Noud de Schutter is president of Vereniging Windenergie Noord Holland (the wind turbine owners association of North Holland) and a ... Read more
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Wind Energy in America: A History by Robert Righter

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Paul Gipe

"The free benefit of the wind ought not be denied to any man."