Articles by
Paul Gipe

Windpower 98 Tehachapi Tour
By
Paul Gipe
The following appeared in an edited version in an 1998 edition of Windpower Monthly Four busses chocked full of windpower ... Read more
North American Green’s Erosion Control Software
By
Paul Gipe
Those planning wind projects in steep terrain (California, Texas, the northeastern USA, Spain, Italy, France) or those repowering projects in ... Read more
The Landscape Impact and Visual Design of Windfarms by Caroline Stanton
By
Paul Gipe
This is the second of two reports on wind turbines and aesthetic design. The other is a Review of Wind ... Read more

Wind Turbines & the Landscape: Architecture & Aesthetics by Frode Birk Nielsen
By
Paul Gipe
This is the first of two reports on wind turbines and aesthetic design. The second is The Landscape Impact and ... Read more
Time to Clean Up the Mess in Kern County
By
Paul Gipe
Wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology for generating electricity. Wind development is booming. Worldwide sales ... Read more
The Need for an International Small Wind Turbine Test Center
By
Paul Gipe
There is a pressing need for an international center to test and demonstrate small wind turbines. In contrast to the medium-sized wind turbine industry, which is nearing technical maturity, small wind turbines are still plagued by high costs and poor reliability.
Comments on the Vortec Diffuser Augmented Turbine
By
Paul Gipe
I was critical of the development of this wind turbine for several reasons: excessive hype, questionable sales of stock, and the aggressive style of the company's promoter.
Removal and Restoration Costs in California: Who Will Pay?
By
Paul Gipe
An edited version of this article appeared in the Spring 1997 issue of WindStats Newsletter (Vol. 10, No. 2). ... Read more
Financing Distributed Wind Development 1997
By
Paul Gipe
The following article appeared in an edited form in Independent Energy. With restructuring fever sweeping the North American utility ... Read more

Wind Farm, Wind Plant, Wind Power Plant—Not Wind Parks
By
Paul Gipe
In American and British English "park" connotes recreational enclaves or sylvan settings publicly protected from development. Arrays or clusters of multiple wind turbines are more correctly described as wind power plants. During the 1970s utilities in North America envisioned building "energy parks" of multiple nuclear reactors. Propagandists for the utilities deliberately chose the term "parks" to mislead public debate. Continued use of the term "wind park" by the wind industry may be construed as a similar attempt to deceive the public.

Wulf Test Field Site Description
By
Paul Gipe
Since 1997 Paul Gipe and Nancy Nies have used the site to gain experience installing and operating small wind turbines, to measure small turbine performance and noise emissions, and to experiment with various erosion control products and practices.

