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.
Co-owned by locals, Britain’s biggest subsidy-free onshore wind farm is opened
By
Alban Thurston
Locals around Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway now own 5% of the £50 million, 46 MW Crossdykes park, thanks to the Holyrood government’s Community & Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES).
Windfarm firm charged over landslide death
By
Paul Deering
A company director has been returned for trial in relation to charges arising out of the death of a worker who was killed in a windfarm landslide.
World’s longest under-sea electricity cable begins operations
By
Anmar Frangoul
The idea behind the NSL is for it to harness Norway’s hydropower and the U.K’s wind energy resources.
How much offshore wind energy is coming to California?
By
Mackenzie Shuman
Offshore wind is no longer a distant possibility in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Thursday mandating that the California Energy Commission create a plan for offshore wind development in federal waters.
La Puissance du Vent (The Power of Wind)–A Review
By
Paul Gipe
La Puissance du Vent: Des moulins á vent aux éoliennes modernes by Philippe Bruyerre is a major work on the history of wind energy particularly in France, but also elsewhere. His book earns a place in French analogous to Matthias Heymann’s masterwork on German wind energy or Rinie van Est’s Winds of Change.
Bibliographic Entries for Dimitri Stein German-American Engineer
By
Paul Gipe
The following are the bibliographic entries I’ve been able to uncover for Dimitri Stein, a German-American engineer who studied wind energy in the mid 1940s. He and the company he started with others designed and built a 15-meter diameter wind turbine for a remote island in 1949.
