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.
Trio of wind turbines in Providence get go-ahead
By
Alex Kuffner
The turbines are set to go up in 2021 at the southern end of Fields Point, on land owned by the Port of Providence and Johnson & Wales University. When they’re completed, on a date expected to come around next fall, they will join another trio of turbines that were installed just to the north in 2012 at the wastewater treatment plant operated by the Narragansett Bay Commission.
Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease–A Review
By
Paul Gipe
For those who’ve fought the wind wars and done battle with renewable energy skeptics, climate denialists, and the “wind turbines cause cancer” crowd, Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease by Simon Chapman and Fiona Crichton is a welcome antidote.
Giant Giromill Loses Blade at Grevenbroich Test Site
By
Paul Gipe
Swiss VAWT Vertical Sky 32 lost one of its three rotor arms and blade Sunday 15 November at the Grevenbroich test site according to German media. The prototype turbine was installed at the test site west of Cologne, Germany in September.
79th Anniversary of First Wind Turbine Interconnection with the Grid in North America
By
Paul Gipe
On this date in 1941 an ungainly wind turbine atop Vermont’s Grandpa’s Knob fed electricity into the lines of Central Vermont Public Service Company. This was the first time in North America that a wind turbine fed electricity into the grid. Until then wind turbines had been used solely to charge batteries at remote homesteads in Canada and the United States.
Tvindkraft: The Giant That Shook the World Turns 42
By
Paul Gipe
Guinness Book of Records is considering a new category–world’s longest running or oldest megawatt-scale wind turbine. The question was thrown at me by Britta Jensen, one of the operators of Tvindkraft in northwest Jutland. She wanted to know if they qualified.
Boris Johnson to unveil plan to power all UK homes with wind by 2030
By
Jessica Elgot, Fiona Harvey and Jillian Ambrose
“We believe that in 10 years’ time offshore wind will be powering every home in the country, with our target rising from 30 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts,” he will say. “Your kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug-in electric vehicle – the whole lot of them will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands.”
