Articles by

Paul Gipe

Dan Juhl's V44s on the Buffalo Ridge, Woodstock, Minnesota, 1999.

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.

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

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.)

Proceedings of The European Wind Energy Association Special Topic Conference on the Economics of Wind Energy

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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
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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

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

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

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.
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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
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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