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.
The Rest of the Story: Part 2 of History of Conventional Wind Turbines–the 1970s onward
By
Paul Gipe
The historical saga begun by Erik Möllerström and myself finally reaches its conclusion with the publication of Part 2 in …
Low-Income Group Installs 4.2 MW Wind Turbine in the West of England
By
Paul Gipe
Tom Wall of the Guardian reports (England’s tallest wind turbine prepares to rise against the odds) on a community group …
Feldheim: The energy self-sufficient village
By
Annika Leister
If your German is not up to the article on Feldheim here’s the gist in English. Feldheim is reaping the …
Comparing The US & China On Climate, Economy, & Other Outcomes Should Be Deeply Humbling For America
By
Michael Barnard
The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.
The first North American freshwater offshore wind farm will be in Lake Erie
By
Michelle Lewis
Despite pushback from residents, the Supreme Court of Ohio yesterday approved a permit for the construction of North America’s first freshwater offshore wind farm, which will be sited in Lake Erie, around eight miles north of Cleveland.
HKZ is not “the first subsidy-free offshore wind farm” (it’s not even subsidy free)
By
Jérôme Guillet
Vattenfall and BASF have been getting a lot of coverage for the first power generated at the HKZ offshore wind farm, with headlines like: Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Power Starts Flowing into Dutch Grid. This is doubly annoying, as HKZ is actually not subsidy-free, and what it is “free” of is not a subsidy.
