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.
How much wind power potential does europe have? Examining european wind power potential with an enhanced socio-technical atlas
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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
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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.
Benchmarking Wind Power Operating Costs in the United States: Results from a Survey of Wind Industry Expert
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Ryan Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Eric Lantz
We find that average all-in lifetime OpEx has declined from approximately $80/kW-yr (~$35/MWh) for projects built in the late 1990s to a level that is approaching $40/kW-yr (~$11/MWh) for projects under construction in 2018. Turbine operations and maintenance (O&M) costs—inclusive of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance—represent the single largest component of overall OpEx and the primary source of cost reductions over the last decade.
CEO Linked To Failed Wind Farm Indicted On Federal Wire Fraud, Money Laundering Charges
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Davis was CEO of Dragonfly Industries International, LLC, which sought to build a wind farm on 300 acres near in Elm Springs for electric power generation in 2015.
