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.
Wind Farm, Wind Plant, Wind Power Plant—Not Wind Parks
By
Paul Gipe
In American and British English “park” connotes recreational enclaves or sylvan settings publicly protected from development. Arrays or clusters of multiple wind turbines are more correctly described as wind power plants. During the 1970s utilities in North America envisioned building “energy parks” of multiple nuclear reactors. Propagandists for the utilities deliberately chose the term “parks” to mislead public debate. Continued use of the term “wind park” by the wind industry may be construed as a similar attempt to deceive the public.
Glossary of Wind Energy Terms
By
Paul Gipe and Bill Canter
The publisher of Windpower Monthly and WindStats Newsletter, Forlaget Vistoft, has published 1997 Glossary of Wind Energy Terms. The 100 …
Remarks by Paul Gipe at the Dedication of EDON’s Wind Plant at Eemshaven, the Netherlands
By
Paul Gipe
May 29, 1996 I’d like to express my thanks to Mr. Witvliet and Mr. Jans for the invitation to join …
Remarks by Paul Gipe at the Dedication of EDON’s Wind Plant at Eemshaven, the Netherlands
By
Paul Gipe
With the completion of this wind plant, events have come full circle. The flow of visitors seeking information about wind energy has reversed. The intellectual, technical, and may I say “moral” momentum has shifted from the United States to Europe.
Kenetech Windpower (U.S. Windpower) citations in Wind Energy Comes of Age
By
Paul Gipe
Kenetech Windpower (U.S. Windpower), one of the world’s largest wind companies, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 1996. Below …
AWT 26 Generates Noise Complaint
By
Paul Gipe
These comments were posted to awea-windnet and subsequently noise from the AWT 26 was abated. Eventually the turbines were …
