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 I’ve added the glossary to my web site for both its historical content—many of the terms were in use during the 1980s and 1990s—and as a reference for the thousands of newcomers to the wind industry since it was first published.
Carl Wilcox Citations in Palmer Putnam’s Power from the Wind
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Paul Gipe
In the 1970s Carl Wilcox gave me a box of archive materials on the Smith-Putnam wind turbine project. I had …
Wind farm noise not harmful to health: New study finds no evidence of wind turbine syndrome
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Sophie Vorrath
Once again another study confirms there are no health impacts from “infrasound.”
The Rest of the Story: Part 2 of History of Conventional Wind Turbines–the 1970s onward
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Paul Gipe
The historical saga begun by Erik Möllerström and myself finally reaches its conclusion with the publication of Part 2 in …
Low-Income Group Installs 4.2 MW Wind Turbine in the West of England
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Paul Gipe
Tom Wall of the Guardian reports (England’s tallest wind turbine prepares to rise against the odds) on a community group …
Was the Zaanstreek the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution?
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Paul Gipe
The Zaanstreek or the district on the Zaan river in the Dutch province of Noord Holland once contained the largest …
Traditional Windmills in Germany at the turn of the 19th Century
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Paul Gipe
In trying to find the original sources for my table on the number of traditional European windmills I’ve come across …
