Articles by

Paul Gipe

Midwest Wind Integration Study

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Paul Gipe

The Midwest Wind Integration Study, which was required by the Minnesota legislature in 2005 to evaluate reliability and other impacts ... Read more

Brief Summary of World Solar PV Market Stats 2006

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Paul Gipe

December 5, 2006 Total Market World PV 1,500-2,000 MW/yr $11-14 billion/yr Growth: 20-40%/yr Major Markets Germany: 600-750 MW/yr; $4-5 billion/yr ... Read more
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Choosing Windpower by Hugh Piggott

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Paul Gipe

Hugh Piggott is one of the English-speaking world's true experts on small wind turbines, especially for off-the-grid applications.
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Éoliennes: Quand le vent nous eclaire (Wind Turbines: When the wind lights our way) by Philippe Ollivier

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Paul Gipe

Ollivier is a journalist living in southern France’s Languedoc-Roussillion region, the country’s premier wind resource area. As a journalist, Ollivier ... Read more
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Renewable Energy Resources by John Twidell & Tony Weir

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Paul Gipe

Massive. That’s the first word that comes to mind when picking up the 600-page tome by John Twidell and Tony ... Read more
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Switching to Renewable Power by Volkmar Lauber–A Review

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Paul Gipe

Volkmar Lauber is one of the world’s pre-eminent academics specializing in renewable energy policy. Lauber, a professor political science at ... Read more
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Wind Energy: Technology and Planning CD-ROM

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Paul Gipe

The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) issued a bilingual CD-ROM on wind energy at its New Delhi conference in 2006.
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Krieg um Öl oder Frieden durch die Sonne (War over Oil or Peace through the Sun)

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Paul Gipe

Yes, Franz Alt’s powerful little book is in German. And yes there’s perhaps only 100 million native German speakers in ... Read more

Energy Balance of Wind Turbines

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Paul Gipe

  Adapted from Wind Energy Comes of Age, by Paul Gipe, John Wiley & Sons, 1995. All rights reserved. Much ... Read more

Roof Top Windsave in Scotland

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Paul Gipe

Stewart C. Russell sent these photos of a Windsave installation in Scotland. The turbine is near his parents house and is installed on an expensive home. Note the sheltering effect from both the building and nearby trees. The good news is that this turbine should last a very long time because it won't produce much electricity in this location.

RENEW Calls for Advanced Renewable Tariffs in Wisconsin, Becoming the First NGO in US to Call for a Full-Featured Electricity Feed Law

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Paul Gipe

  RENEW Wisconsin filed testimony with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission on September 18, 2006 calling for implementation of Advanced ... Read more

Vanessa Skarski’s Account of Her Father’s Death on a Small Wind Turbine

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Paul Gipe

Robert Skarski died in 1993 while installing a small wind turbine at his Illinois home. He was killed when the tower he was on buckled and fell to the ground.