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.
Benchmarking Anticipated Wind Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Wind Industry Professionals
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Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger
We find that most wind project developers, sponsors and long-term owners have increased project-life assumptions over time, from a typical term of ~20 years in the early 2000s to ~25 years by the mid-2010s and ~30 years more recently. Current assumptions range from 25 to 40 years, with an average of 29.6 years.
We Danes know a lot about wind turbines. You can learn, too, President Trump.
By
Ida Auken
Good news — neither the president nor anyone else will lose their wealth because of wind energy. On the contrary. A green energy system is cheaper, cleaner and safer than most systems dependent on fossil fuel. And it’s more conducive to dreams of a future on this planet.
How much wind power potential does europe have? Examining european wind power potential with an enhanced socio-technical atlas
By
Peterenevoldsen
. . . supply that would be sufficient to cover the global all-sector energy demand from now through to 2050.
Hywind Scotland Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Video
By
Paul Gipe
I don’t often comment or link to news about offshore wind projects or technology. There’s plenty of land available for wind energy. In most cases we don’t need to go offshore.
Wind-power critic and ‘world’s greatest climate sceptic’ dies
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Leigh Collins
Christopher Booker had campaigned vociferously against wind turbines for over a decade, describing them as ‘one of the most dangerous political delusions of our time’
Construction worker at site of Iowa wind farm killed
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A worker at the site of a wind farm under construction in north-central Iowa has died after being run over by a semitrailer.
