Articles by

Paul Gipe

Tiered Pricing of Renewable Tariffs for Wind Energy

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Paul Gipe

  One of the continuing problems with wind energy has been the rush to windy sites. This was as true ... Read more

Tiered Tariffs, Complexity, and Demands on Staff

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Paul Gipe

  Some critics have charged that determining wind tariffs after a five-year test period is too complex and too demanding ... Read more

Degression of Renewable Tariffs

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Paul Gipe

  Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) reduces the tariffs for new projects each year. This “degression” rate varies with ... Read more

Renewable Electricity Generation Policy Mechanisms for the New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority

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Paul Gipe

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Toronto’s WindShare cooperative. WindShare’s more than 400 members own one half of the wind turbine. Toronto Hydro, the municipal utility owns the other half. The Lagerwey 52 meter (170 foot) diameter wind turbine stands at a prominent location overlooking the Gardiner Expressway in Canada’s largest city. The first urban wind turbine in North America, it has became a beacon for renewable energy advocates across the continent. 2009.

Toronto’s WindShare Coop

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Paul Gipe

North America’s first truly urban wind turbine is located on the grounds of the Canadian National Exposition, the CNE or ... Read more

WindShare Performance Table

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Paul Gipe

Wolfgang Paulsen, Bohmstedt, and Butendiek

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Paul Gipe

  Wolfgang Paulsen is one of the owners of a Bürger wind project in the far northwest of Schleswig-Holstein near ... Read more
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Josef Pesch–Strom Rebel of Freiburg

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Paul Gipe

Pesch was named a strom (electricity) rebel by Elektritzitätswerke Schönau (EWS) in 2005 and that was a good reason for ... Read more

Samsø: Denmark’s Renewable Energy Island

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Paul Gipe

  Samsø is a 112 square kilometers island off the east coast of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula. Home to 4,300 residents, ... Read more

Observations on Bürgerbeteiligung–German Share Cooperatives–by Henning Holst

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Paul Gipe

  I first met Henning Holst in the late 1980s or early 1990s when he was developing citizen-owned wind projects ... Read more
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Landowner Leases & Royalty Payments

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Paul Gipe

An overview of royalty payments for wind energy in selected countries. . .

Renewable Energy Policy Mechanisms

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Paul Gipe

Renewable Tariffs have proven the most successful mechanism for stimulating investment in renewable electricity generation worldwide. Renewable Tariffs have resulted in more installed generating capacity and more robust competition among manufacturers and have stimulated more