Articles by
Paul Gipe
Proceedings of The European Wind Energy Association Special Topic Conference on the Economics of Wind Energy
By
Paul Gipe
The special topic conference was held in Helsinki Finland 5-7 September, 1995 by the European Wind Energy Association in collaboration ... Read more
AWT 26 Generates Noise Complaint
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Paul Gipe
These comments were posted to awea-windnet and subsequently noise from the AWT 26 was abated. Eventually the turbines were ... Read more
The Pot Calls the Kettle Black
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Paul Gipe
Or How Company A Charges That Their Nonexistent Wind Turbine Is Better Than Company B’s Nonexistent Wind Turbine On July ... Read more
Detecting Variable Speed Performance Improvements
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Paul Gipe
An edited version of this article appeared in Vol 8 No 4, (Autumn 1995) “If there are any performance benefits ... Read more
California Projects Show Steady Improvements
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Paul Gipe
An edited version of this article appeared in WindStats Vol 8 No 4, (Autumn 1995). Data from the California Energy ... Read more
Tilting at Windmills: Public Opinion Toward Wind Energy
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Paul Gipe
Surveys point to broad support for wind energy despite vocal objections to some projects.
Wind Power Plants: What Are They?
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Paul Gipe
What then is a wind power plant? Generally it is any cluster of wind turbines used for the bulk generation of electricity. A wind plants contrasts with a single wind turbine used to meet on-site needs that characterized wind energy before development began in California. Wind plants vary widely in size. In California, project size has grown with the industry. Today wind plants range from 40 to 400 turbines. In Europe, arrays are much smaller, averaging in the tens of machines.
Design as if People Matter: Aesthetic Guidelines for the Wind Industry
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Paul Gipe
Note: The graphics to this article were lost when my original web site crashed in the fall of 2022. For ... Read more
Jules Verne Looks at Wind
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Paul Gipe
Jules Verne’s long lost novel “Paris in the 20th Century” contains an interesting passage on windmills by the father of ... Read more
Wind Turbine Tower Trends
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Paul Gipe
An edited version of this article appeared in WindStatsVol 8 No 1, (1st Quarter 1995) Portions of this article were ... Read more
Wind Energy Comes of Age
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Paul Gipe
John Wiley & Sons, Inc New York (1995) Never again will wind energy be seen as the domain of a ... Read more
