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 I’ve added the glossary to my web site for both its historical content—many of the terms were in use during the 1980s and 1990s—and as a reference for the thousands of newcomers to the wind industry since it was first published.
Royal Society for Protection of Birds to Install 800 kW Wind Turbine
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Work begins in Sandy, Bedfordshire on 25 January, and the 100-metre tall Enercon E-53 800kW turbine will generate around 2m units of green energy every year, equivalent to over half of the electricity the RSPB uses across its 127 UK locations.
Denmark’s Agricco: History’s First Interconnected Wind Turbine
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Paul Gipe
In 1919 the utility installed a wind turbine at Buddinge and connected it to its lines—a first worldwide, a full two decades before the Smith-Putnam machine in Vermont was connected to the grid.
Buchenwald’s Liberation and What It Says about the Development of Wind Energy
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Paul Gipe
Today marks the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 by the 6th armored division of the US Third Army. Buchenwald is significant for several reasons. 56,000 people died in the camp, some one-quarter of those imprisoned.
Wind turbines ruin the view from Kaiserstuhl – not
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Craig Morris
In short, anyone who claims that these wind turbines are spoiling the view from Kaiserstuhl is very sensitive indeed, not to mention highly selective. Perhaps because Kaiserstuhl is arguably the birthplace of the Energiewende, there is no anti-wind campaign in the area that I am aware of. One other reason, however, may simply be that it’s very hard to see the turbines.
Eoliennes : l’Assemblée nationale supprime la disposition sur les monuments historiques
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Constance Maria
France’s National assembly defeats Senate measure to effectively ban wind turbines in France.
Moulins de France : pourquoi tant de haine ?
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Claudio Rumolino
The proposed law on the cultural landscape in France is a Trojan Horse designed to ban wind turbines. Why do they hate windmills so much?
