Articles by
Paul Gipe
Defunct Windspire Wins Greenwashing Award
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Paul Gipe
In the annals of greenwashing, no wind turbine company has done more to develop the technique to a fine art. It’s as if the company’s entire business model was built on finding participants who wanted a greenwashing project.
Honeywell Windtronics Kaputt–Finally an End to a Sad Saga of a “Revolutionary Roof Top Wind Turbine”
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Paul Gipe
The true tragedy of this sad saga is that anyone with a modicum of technical expertise would easily have seen that the entire edifice was built upon a fundamentally flawed design with a business model that was doomed from the start.
Two Steps Forward, One Back: Ontario Cancels Feed-in Tariffs for Large Projects
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Paul Gipe
There’s no sugar-coating what happened last week. Ontario’s Minister of Energy, Bob Chiarelli, used the occasion of the annual conference of the Canadian Solar Energy Industry Association (CanSIA) to announce that he was canceling feed-in tariffs for large projects.
OSEA Calls for Ontario to Sanction CANDU Nuclear Reactors
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Paul Gipe
In a hard-hitting letter to all members of Ontario’s Provincial Parliament, the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) has called for ... Read more
New Greek Solar PV Tariffs
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Paul Gipe
Sources are reporting that Greece has revised its 2013 tariffs for solar photovoltaics.
Photos of One-Bladed Wind Turbines Posted
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Paul Gipe
I've posted archival photos of one-bladed wind turbines in Germany and Italy under the section Large Wind Turbines.
Penetration of Renewable Energy in Selected Markets
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Paul Gipe
Inter-annual Wind Variability Less than that of Hydro--Steady Growth of Non-Hydro Renewable Penetration in European Markets--US Renewable Energy Penetration: Little Progress Since 1983 . . .
New Feed-in Tariffs for Solar PV in Malta
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Paul Gipe
New feed-in tariffs for solar photovoltaics (solar PV) on Malta were published on 27 February 2013. They cover tariffs of subsidized and unsubsidized solar PV installations on residential and non-residential properties through June 2013. . .
Photos of Small Wind Turbines by Paul Gipe Posted
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Paul Gipe
I've posted photos of small wind turbines from my archives, including photos of Aircon, Aeroman, Bergey, Easywind, Endurance, Enertech-AOC, Fayette, Gaia, Grumman, Jacobs, Mehrkam, Northern Power, Southwest Windpower, StormMaster, Swiss Elektro, Thy Møllen, UTRC-Windtech, Vergnet, Wenco, Wincharger, and Wind Engineering.
Fforde on Feed-in Tariffs: Literary Use of “Feed-in Tariffs” Comes of Age
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Paul Gipe
Feed-in tariffs, the terminology at least, has come of age. The term can now be found in a prolific English ... Read more
Energy from the Heavens: Franz Alt on Wind Energy
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Paul Gipe
Theologian, popular author, renewables activist, TV personality, Franz Alt is something of a phenomenon in Germany. Unfortunately for us Anglophones, ... Read more
A Summary of Fatal Accidents in Wind Energy
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Paul Gipe
Update: The most current database for the number of fatal accidents in the wind industry. Below is a summary table from the spreadsheet. Note that there are four other tabs not reproduced here. . .
