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.
One Million Megawatts of Wind Capacity for the USA: A Target Worthy of a Great Nation
By
Paul Gipe
Portion of a presentation made January 10, 2008 to Al Gore’s Solutions Summit To significantly address the United State’s contribution …
Audubon’s Position on Wind Power
By
National Audubon Society
Audubon strongly supports properly-sited wind power as a clean alternative energy source that reduces the threat of global warming. . .
Cleveland’s Urban Wind Turbine
By
Paul Gipe
Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center installed a 225 kW Vestas V27 wind turbine in 2006 on the city’s harbor front …
Falling in Love with Wind: How a small farm town traded its dairy cows for renewable energy
By
Joseph D’agnese, Nrdc
American Energy Independence through Cooperative Investment in Wind Energy
By
Mike Kendall
The following is a response to an article written by Paul Gipe in July 2005 titled Beating Swords into Wind …