News & Articles on Large Wind Power
Large wind turbines are those used to generate commercial quantities of electricity. This category includes single turbines used in distributed applications as well as arrays of multiple wind turbines used in a wind power plant.
Movie Madness: “The South Westerlies” TV Serial
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“The South Westerlies” is a TV serial produced in 2020 that revolves around a wind farm proposal. Here’s a brief …
French court suspends wind farm after death of golden eagle
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The Montpellier court has ordered a one-year suspension of the Bernagues wind farm, finding Énergie Renouvelable du Languedoc responsible for the death of a golden eagle, a protected species, in January 2023.
1984 Films of Fayette Wind Turbines by Thomas Braise
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Paul Gipe
In the fall of 1984 California photographer Thomas Braise filmed Fayette Manufacturing’s wind turbines in the Altamont Pass. Braise was …
LA Times: Time for California to get serious about cheaper, cleaner energy
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Sammy Roth
Californians pay some of the nation’s highest electricity rates. They’re also being devastated by the consequences of fossil fueled climate change, including more deadly and expensive wildfires, droughts and heat waves. Politicians need to stop promising they’ll confront these challenges and start doing it. The recent fires in Los Angeles County should serve as a political rallying cry to accelerate the phaseout of oil and gas. Instead, they’re threatening to derail Sacramento’s long-promised focus on more affordable energy.
The Mechanicsville Monster: How NOT to handle wind turbine end of life
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It’s past time for the wind industry to send Godzilla back to the depth of the oceans for a long sleep. That can only occur if industry sets new standards for itself. No more poorly maintained turbines. No more abandoned wind sites. And if a site must come down, funds and a plan must be in place to clean it up. Properly. Sayonara, Godzilla!
Tariff design and LCOE: Why CfDs are more efficient than PPAsTariff design and LCOE:
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Jérôme Guillet
From the regulator’s perspective, merchant projects do not provide any price protection for consumers even though their cost base is fixed – renewables projects will make “super profits” during price spikes. But they appear to be “subsidy-free”. And if they lead to PPA-backed structures, the benefits of the fixed price will go to the buyer – which these days is most likely to be one of the GAFAs (Google, Microsoft, Amazon). Thus relying on PPAs rather than CfDs is akin to indirectly giving subsidies to some of the richest corporates on earth…
