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.
Material Intensity of Wind Turbines
By
Paul Gipe
A question arises whether large wind turbines are more or less materially intensive than small wind turbines. The answer, as with most things in life, isn’t that simple.
Greek enviro orgs warn of poorly sited wind farms after pelican deaths
By
Sladjana Djunisic
Seven environmental organisations in Greece denounced the installation of wind turbines near protected habitats after three pelicans were found dead on Sunday following collision with blades.
Land-based wind energy cost trends in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the United States
By
Ryan Wiser
This resulted in an average levelized cost of energy (LCOE) fall of 33% for new projects to 48€/MWh at the end of the study period. Analysis of the components of levelized cost change indicated that changes in specific power, financing cost and capital cost accounted for 45%, 25% and 17% respectively of the estimated reduction.
Let Project Icebreaker break the ice
By
Theresa Carroll
Imagine this: thousands of wind turbines situated in our Great Lakes, out of sight from treasured coastal vistas but close enough to be economically viable. Technology and site placement mitigate risk to birds, and turbine masts hold strong against ice shoves, storms and waves. The vast clean energy potential offered by winds blowing across the Great Lakes is unlocked for millions of energy customers in the Midwest.
Teen found dead in Jeep on wind-farm access road in Cambria County
By
Steve Marroni
An autopsy Saturday revealed the cause of death to be multiple blunt force trauma to the upper torso, the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown is reporting.
‘Recipe for disaster’: Heavy fines as US wind farm worker dies helping buried colleague
By
Andrew Lee
Renewable energy developer RES and two contractors were condemned over the “heartbreaking and completely preventable” death of a wind farm worker who died while trying to rescue a colleague after a trench collapsed during construction of a US wind farm.
