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.
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog 2025 Update
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Paul Gipe
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog is famous in the annals of wind energy. The polder in Schleswig-Holstein’s Dithmarshen kreis hosted Germany’s first wind farm …
LA Times: Why We Neglected Wind Power for a Century
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External Source
A modern windmill — or wind turbine, to be exact — is not so much a constructionthat invites affection or radiates pastoral comfort. Rather, it is something built out ofan urgent necessity — a need for a better means of generating electricity, an inventionmade to wean society away from polluting ourselves into oblivion.
Dismantling a wind farm: all the details of a real case
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External Source
The dismantling of the Muel wind farm demonstrates that circularity in wind energy is already an industrial reality. The results, with an outstanding 99.85% of materials recovered or recycled, confirm that recycling or recovering nearly 100% of a turbine is not science fiction, but the outcome of applying engineering, collaboration, and technical knowledge. The next step for the industry will be to make it faster, more cost-effective, and with greater added value in each material flow, consolidating circular economy as a standard practice in future repowering projects.
How wind power cuts UK wholesale electricity prices by a quarter
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David Toke
A new analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has calculated that in 2024 UK wholesale electricity prices would have been over 30 per cent higher if there had been no wind power generated in the UK. In practice in 2024 the wholesale power price averaged at around £75 per MWh. But without any wind power the price would, according to the ECIU, have been around £99 MWh. This difference has a significant impact on average (retail) energy consumer bills. It reduces them by an average of roughly £65 a year based on a typical household consumption as estimated by Ofgem.
Europe’s $750 Billion Energy Pledge To Trump Is Pure Political Theater
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Michael Barnard
For President Trump, the deal represented a dramatic political win, as it allowed him to claim a significant diplomatic and economic success before his self-imposed deadline. Yet, upon closer examination, the celebrated energy pledge raises substantial doubts. Analysts widely question its feasibility, suggesting that Europe’s commitments are essentially political theater designed primarily to manage President Trump’s volatile negotiating tactics, rather than realistic economic strategy.
Wind: An Energy Alternative–Video Blast from the Past
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Paul Gipe
This is an update of an article I first posted in 10 November 2018. It follows on a series of articles about historical films of wind turbines. In 1980 the Department of Energy published a short film titled Wind: An Energy Alternative. The 12-minute film was produced by the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) probably in 1979.
