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.
Train hits different Semis Stopped on Level Crossing
By
Viral Hog
Truck hauling a wind turbine blade gets pulverized by a train
Wind farm firms admit safety breaches over worker who froze to death
By
Nichola Rutherford
A construction company and a security firm have admitted breaching health and safety rules in an incident which led to the death of a 74-year-old wind farm security guard. Ronnie Alexander died in hospital in January 2018.
How Aloys Wobben made Enercon a direct-drive wind power pioneer
By
Eize De Vries
While traveling in Belgium the day after hearing about Wobben’s death, his direct-drive Enercon turbine heritage was prominently visible along the way. The turbines’ characteristic egg-shaped nacelles makes them easily recognisable, together with the unusual high-performance blade design featuring tip winglets and a widening spoiler towards the aerodynamically optimised spinner. Another visual characteristic is the slender prefab coning of the often concrete-steel hybrid towers with their patented colour scheme in different shades from dark green to lighter colours towards the white-grey upper structure.
The wind farm where turbines shut down 400 times a day when eagles approach
By
Sophie Vorrath
So far, the technology has proven highly successful in protecting the local population of “Wedgies,” with just one mortality due to a turbine collision identified during the initial commissioning of the IdentiFlight system.
Enercon founder Aloys Wobben has died
By
Craig Richard
Enercon founder Aloys Wobben has died aged 69 after a serious long-term illness.
N.J. Amps Up Wind Fight, Overriding Beach Towns Balking at Farms
By
Josh Saul and Will Mathis
Much like the resistance to fracking in parts of the U.S. and the U.K., oceanfront towns have fought against power lines running ashore from wind farms, even as the massive turbines themselves are mostly out of sight. In a dramatic move Thursday, New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation that strips coastal communities of the right to block buried power lines for projects like Orsted A/S’s Ocean Wind 1 off the state’s coast.
