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.
California Worker Dies after Blade Falls Off Wind Machine
By
Paul Gipe
The Associated Press circulated a news item on 14 January 2019 about a field hand killed near Visalia when the blade of a “wind machine” fell off. See California orchard worker dies after 600-pound blade falls off wind machine.
Correction to the Death of Robert Skarski in Wind Power 2004
By
Paul Gipe
I’ve been alerted to an error in the second edition of Wind Power (2004): Renewable Energy for Home Farm and Business.
Should the Central Coast be a new hub for wind energy in California? Read more here: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article223109435.html#storylink=cpy
By
Kaytlyn Leslie
Hundreds of wind turbines could pop up along the coast off Los Osos and Cambria — but before they do,the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Managment wants to know if you think that’d be a good idea.
We’ve turned our backs on wind energy. That’s a mistake
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Texas now produces four times as much wind energy as California, which has fallen to No. 4 in the United States — not a promising trend, given the state’s ambitious goal of switching to 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.
Evolve – Don’t Stagnate: Moving Cleveland’s Icebreaker Project Forward
By
Sarah Taylor
Windustrious Cleveland’s Sara Taylor calls for opponents of offshore wind in the Great Lakes to evolve, as others have done in past, to avoid technological stagnation.
Tasmania wind farm Australia’s first to use eagle protection technology
By
Sophie Vorrath
New technology to detect and prevent eagles from colliding with rotating wind turbine blades will be applied in Australia for the first time – at Goldwind Australia’s Cattle Hill Wind Farm in the Central Highlands of Tasmania.
