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.
Gusty growth: Vietnam’s remarkable wind energy story
By
Tim Daubach
The latest feed-in-tariff for onshore projects, introduced last year, stands at 8.5 US cents/kWh, while offshore wind power generators will be paid 9.8 US cents for every kWh of power exported to the grid.
This article is more than 1 month old Renewable energy: climate crisis ‘may have triggered faster wind speeds’
By
Jillian Ambrose
The global climate crisis could lead to more renewable electricity being generated by spurring faster wind speeds for the world’s growing number of windfarms, according to research.
The Big Ban of Wind Energy
By
Karl-friedrich Lenz
One of the reasons is the failed policy of leaving the working feed-in tariff in favor of an experiment with auctions. Said experiment has failed in a spectacular way. As a part of my job I follow some of the European and German developments of legislation. I think this particular change deserves the title of “WORST LAW EVER”. It has resulted in a complete destruction of any credible path to achieving the German climate goals.
Wind energy and health court cases found for wind energy
By
Michael Barnard
Wind energy was found not guilty of health impacts 48 times in 5 countries
No, there aren’t 14,000 abandoned wind turbines littered across the United States
By
Madison Czopek
“It’s bullshit,” said Paul Gipe, who has published five books on wind energy since 1995 and who has closely studied California’s wind farms. (Now the American Wind Energy Association does that.) Gipe said there have never been 14,000 abandoned wind turbines in California, in the United States, in North America or anywhere in the world. But at one time, there were approximately 14,000 wind turbines in California, total. He says he is “the author of that number” and believes that it is the origin of the 14,000 figure used in the email chain.
Study finds way to save bats from ‘bad rap’ from wind turbines
By
Lenore Sobota
Preliminary results from a study involving a wind turbine at Heartland Community College in Normal indicate that using software that turns off turbine blades at lower wind speeds can cut bat mortality in half.
