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 I’ve added the glossary to my web site for both its historical content—many of the terms were in use during the 1980s and 1990s—and as a reference for the thousands of newcomers to the wind industry since it was first published.
Wind power topics at Euro Tribune by Jérôme Guillet
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Jérôme Guillet
Below the fold is a (hopefully) complete list of ET diaries and stories related to wind power. . .
Financing European energy infrastructure by Jérôme Guillet
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Jérôme Guillet
Another insightful article by a financier who raises debt for large offshore wind projects. . . “There are no “neutral” policy choices, and energy will always be political – and it’s time what the implicit political choices of current policies be acknowledged.
John Farrell: Distributed Wind Energy in Germany–
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John Farrell
Of Germany’s 27,000 megawatts of wind power projects (3rd most in the world and most per capita), nearly 90% are smaller than 20 megawatts, with most between 1 and 5 megawatts.
Jérôme Guillet: ExxonMobil says wind is cheapest form of electricity generation–
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Jérôme Guillet
So the conclusion can be that wind costs roughly the same as traditional power sources – with none of their drawbacks, whether troublesome exporters to deal with, dangerous mining practices for local communities or unhealthy, and durable, by-products. And it’s ExxonMobil saying so.
Bill Koch: The Dirty Money Behind Cape Wind Opposition
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Bill Koch has a nearly five-year history of opposing one of largest renewable energy initiatives in America. Cape Wind, a project to develop the country’s first offshore wind farm, has received a significant amount of media attention, not only for its prominence as the first major proposal of it’s kind, but also for the manufactured opposition from wealthy individuals like Bill Koch.
Brief Summary of World Wind Energy Stats 2009
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Feed Laws Lead Feed Laws produced ~1/2 of world wind capacity ¾ California wind capacity from Feed Law World …
