News & Articles on Wind Energy
This is an archive of articles and news on both large and small wind turbines, wind energy & the environment, and links to topics on the history of wind energy.
I’ve been working with wind energy since 1976 and my professional experience in the subject runs the gamut from wind resource assessment to installing and testing small wind turbines. I continue to follow the industry and analyze its growth and increasing contribution to renewable electricity generation worldwide.
For newcomers to wind energy I’ve added pages from my previous books explaining terms used in the industry.
- 200 Term Multilingual Lexicon: The lexicon translates English terms into five different languages: Dansk, Deutsch, Español, Français, and Italiano.
- Glossary of Wind Energy Terminology: The glossary was written by Paul Gipe and Bill Canter in the late-1990s. I’ve added the glossary to my web site for both its historical content—many of the terms were in use during the 1980s and 1990s—and as a reference for the thousands of newcomers to the wind industry since it was first published.
Was Christian Riisager First with a Commercial Grid-Connected Wind Turbine?
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The question is not who first generated electricity with wind, nor who first produced wind turbines in series. Companies such as Jacobs and Hütter had already done so, mainly for off-grid applications. The more interesting question is: Who built the first commercially series-produced wind turbine specifically designed for direct parallel operation with a public electricity grid?
Carbon Brief: Wind and solar are ‘fastest-growing electricity sources in history’
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Wind and solar are growing faster than any other sources of electricity in history, according to new analysis from thinktank Ember. It says they are now growing fast enough to exceed rising demand, meaning there will be a peak in fossil fuel electricity generation – and emissions – from this year. As a result, Ember says in its latest annual review of global electricity data that a “new era of falling fossil fuel generation is imminent”. Renewables met a record 30% of global electricity demand in 2023 and emissions from the sector would already have peaked if not for a record fall in hydropower, the analysis says.
Ember: It took 8 years for solar to go from 100 TWh to 1,000 TWh of power–and then just 3 years to pass 2,000 TWh
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Solar power is transforming the world — and at record speed. Solar electricity generation needed just eight years to grow from 100 TWh to 1,000 TWh. Then it took only three more years to double that — reaching 2,000 TWh in 2024. In each of those last three years, solar was the largest source of new electricity globally. No other electricity source has scaled this quickly.
Renewable Energy Nears 60% of German Electricity
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Paul Gipe
In what was once unthinkable, renewable energy from sun, wind, water, and biomass has generated 59.1 percent of German electricity …
OWNED BY WALES: The plan for a public energy company that keeps wind farm profits here
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The promise from ministers is cheaper, cleaner power with the money reinvested at home. The reality check comes with it: the company would not take over your gas and electricity supply, would not set the price you pay, and any saving on bills is a long-term hope rather than help for this winter. What is on the table is one national public energy company, bringing together the energy organisations Wales already has, and everyone in Wales is being asked how it should work before the plans are settled.
British Wind Bids 2026
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Paul Gipe
Uptime Tech News (uptimetechnews@substack.com) recently reported bids for both onshore and offshore wind in Great Britain. “In what is expected …
