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.
Video of NedWind Turbines Spinning in Palm Springs May 2024
By
Paul Gipe
This is a 23 second video of NedWind wind turbines operating on the Whitewater Wash near Palm Springs, California in …
Wincon Wind Turbine Runaway San Gorgonio Pass Mark Haller
By
Paul Gipe
This is a nearly 30-minute video of a Danish Wincon wind turbine running away in the San Gorgonio Pass some …
Enertech E44 Wind Turbine Runaway SeaWest Altamont Pass
By
Paul Gipe
This is a 33-minute video of an Enertech E44 running in overspeed in the Altamont Pass in the late 1980s. …
Inside The Iberian Grid Collapse: What Really Went Wrong
By
Michael Barnard
This combination created atypically low wholesale electricity prices, with significant amounts of renewable energy being curtailed, but the blackout was not a renewable-energy-driven event. Rather, it was the result of multiple layers of insufficient planning, inadequate voltage management, and poorly managed grid dynamics. 50% of the allocation of responsibility was to human failures in planning, 30% to legacy generation not performing as it was designed to do, and 20% to renewables exiting the system because they weren’t configured to deal with the scenario, once again a human failure more than a technology failure.
Passerby Killed by Wind Turbine in Japan
By
Paul Gipe
A cyclist was killed by falling wind turbine blade in Japan. To my knowledge this is the first case of …
More on Fayette Manufacturing and its One-Time Resurrection
By
Paul Gipe
While archiving articles I’d written for the American Wind Energy Association’s newsletter, Wind Energy Weekly, I came across this one about Fayette’s restructuring in 1990. At the time I was the west coast representative for AWEA in Tehachapi. There’s not a lot on my web site about Fayette. (I do mention them in my books and in articles on capacity factor and how this figure of merit can be so misleading.) Consequently, for historical reference I am posting the article with the original date that I submitted it to AWEA. See Fayette Reborn in Major Restructuring.
