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.
Probe launched after death at Austrian wind farm
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Craig Richard
Service provider dies after falling around 100 metres while installing Enercon turbine at a wind farm in eastern Austria
Britain’s First Wind Farm–Three Decades of Delabole–What a Cornish Farmer with a Can Do Attitude Did
By
Paul Gipe
Thirty years ago Cornish farmer Peter Edwards, his late wife Phillipa, and his son Martin installed Great Britain’s first wind farm despite the attacks of those who said it couldn’t or shouldn’t be done. But they persisted, overcoming all the planning objections and the naysayers, completing the project in late 1991.
Good Energy offloads 47.5-MW generation portfolio to Bluefield Solar
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UK renewable power company Good Energy Group Plc (LON:GOOD) has sold its entire 47.5-MW portfolio of renewable generation assets to Bluefield Solar Income Fund Ltd (LON:BSIF), the firms said today.
Bumper year-end for Chinese offshore wind as feed-in tariff expires
By
Nadia Weekes
Several gigawatts of offshore wind capacity were added to the Chinese grid in the final weeks of 2021 to beat the announced scrapping of feed-in tariffs, according to Windpower Intelligence, the data and research division of Windpower Monthly.
Another Long-Forgotten Wind Turbine–This Time on the Isle of Man
By
Paul Gipe
The research for an article on the history of early wind turbines took me down one fascinating rabbit hole after another. Previously, I mentioned Dimitri Stein and his Nordwind turbine on the Island of Neuwerk in the Wattensee. Another long-forgotten wind turbine I’d never heard of before was off the west coast of England on the Isle of Man.
Vietnamese intertidal project comes onstream
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Overall, 106 projects totalling 5.6GW of wind capacity were in construction for a planned feed-in-tariff (FIT) of 0.098USD (€0.09) for offshore and 0.085USD for onshore wind.
