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.

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Tom Weis’ Worldfire: A Climate Journey–Review

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Paul Gipe

WORLDFIRE: A Climate Journey from the Depths of Despair to a Haven of Hope is Tom Weis’ powerful new book …

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California condors continue decades-long return from annihilation

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A dozen more condors are sailing Kern skies as part of a yearslong conservation effort that has recently included local clean energy companies to save the endangered bird. In a May 1 announcement, energy company Avangrid announced it exceeded conditions set in a conservation plan it created with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2021 to fund the raising of a dozen California condors at the Oregon Zoo.

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Famous Fortified French Village Proposes a Wind Turbine to Power its EVs. . . in 1946!

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Paul Gipe

My historical journey into the deep recesses of wind energy took another odd twist yesterday. I was updating my bibliographic …

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Mystery Wind Turbines of the Salinas Valley Wind Rush–Solved

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Paul Gipe

During the heyday of the Great California Wind Rush in the early to mid 1980s, there were a handful of …

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38th Annual Windmill-Wildflower Hike Planned for Tehachapi 18 May 2024

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Paul Gipe

Tehachapi Windmill-Wildflower Hike 2024 38th hike Paul Gipe and Georgette Theotig will lead a hike among the wind turbines on …

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The first wind farm on California’s coast just came online

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Michelle Lewis

The Strauss Wind Project in Santa Barbara County, the first wind farm on California’s coast, is now online. The 98-megawatt (MW) Strauss Wind is near Lompoc, on the Central Coast, with Vandenberg Space Force Base to the south, west, and northwest. The location’s 3,000-acre topography is perpendicular to the predominant wind direction from the ocean, making it an ideal location to generate wind power.