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.
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.
US National Survey of Attitudes of Wind Power Project Neighbors
By
Lbnl
The findings indicate an overall positive attitude toward the nearby turbines, including for those living even as close as ½ mile. Roughly 8% of the population had negative attitudes within 5 miles.
Southern Arizona wind farm investigated after death of bat, eagle
By
Meagan Boudreau
In the mountains 20 miles west of Willcox, 15 wind turbines stand 450 feet tall, spinning with the wind. This is the Red Horse II Wind Farm, the only wind farm operating in southern Arizona.
Trump Again Overblows Risks of Wind Power
By
Jessica Mcdonald
In an Aug. 30 rally in Evansville, Indiana, President Donald Trump made three unsubstantiated claims about wind turbines, which he calls “windmills”.
Navy now considering plans for ocean wind farms — and Morro Bay is a top prospect
By
John Lindt
Efforts to build fields of floating wind turbines off the coast of California are gaining momentum, and Morro Bay might be at the front of the line.
