About Photo Gallery Contact

News on Large Wind

In 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, the alliance [Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound] took in almost $3.3 million in donations, including $1.1 million from oil magnate Bill Koch. The alliance employs four lobbying firms, spends about a third of its take on legal fees, pays its president $114,000, and just opened an office in Washington to lobby during the federal review process. . .

Cleveland Science Center Ohio

Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center installed a 225 kW Vestas V27 wind turbine in 2006 on the city’s harbor front … Read more

This book serves as a guide to the many legal issues faced by farmers and rural landowners who seek to develop wind energy projects. . .

Legrandlivredelcouv gl eolien2 02 gif

Le Grand Livre de l’Éolien est le livre de référence pour tous les acteurs du secteur et pour tous ceux qui souhaitent y prendre part à l’avenir. Il donne au lecteur une vue exhaustive sur une des techniques les plus importantes pour la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique.

IECWindTurbineClases

For a review of Wind Energy Handbook by Tony Burton and for ordering information see Wind Energy Handbook.  

You can’t get something for nothing. North Americans who think a micro or mini wind turbine will meet all their household consumption are in for a rude surprise. A wind turbine with a rotor 1-2 meters in diameter (3-7 ft) will not provide a significant portion of their domestic electricity consumption unless they are extremely conservation minded.

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.

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

AEO for Large Wind Turbines

Newcomers to wind energy and even some old-timers who should know better often equate the size of a wind turbine to it’s generator rating. A Vestas V80 for example is rated at 1.8 MW; a V82 is rated at 1.65 MW. While this is may be a useful shorthand among those unfamiliar with wind energy, the use of generator size leads to a host of problems when evaluating the technology.

Typical of rooftop turbines, the rotor is tied down on this non operating turbine in Holzhausen, Rheinland Pfalz, 2005. The turbine is noteworthy in its own right. The turbine is probably an Allgaier built in the years from 1950 1959. It appears to be a twin to a turbine atop the same company's building, Klöckner Moeller, alongside the main north south line from Bonn to Koblenz. The Allgaier was a derivative of the work by the father of German wind energy, Ulrich Hütter, and was built by a small company in the south of Germany in Göppingen (near Uhingen). Altogether, there were about 200 units built and ranged in size from 6 10 kW. A photograph similar to this and this background information is contained in Windgeshichter by Jan Oelker, 2005.

Why You Shouldn’t Do It

The Resource Management Act, plans developed under it, and RMA processes are capable of facilitating wind energy development and of dealing with the range of effects associated with a wind farm. However, if wind energy development proceeds at the pace and reaches the levels experienced in places such as Western Europe, an ad hoc approach to the planning issues will not maximise benefits and minimise problems. Sustainable development needs integrated management, and integrated management requires a strategic approach at all levels of government.

cropped-paulgipe-logo
About PHOTO GALLERY Contact

2023 © Wind-Works by Paul Gipe