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.
Comment for the OPSB Public Hearing on Cleveland’s Icebreaker Offshore Wind Project
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Sarah Taylor
The growing excitement for offshore wind development on the Great Lakes is great to see. William Friedman, of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, has announced that they have identified the likely staging area to handle the massive foundation structures for the wind turbines. In Europe, ports with heavy-capacity dock structures are key elements in their offshore wind industry.
Can Doug Ford keep his promise to axe green energy projects? Many rural voters hope so
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Philip Lee-shanok
Green Energy Act allowed province to ignore local concerns, but election gives opponents new optimism.
Ben & Jerry’s joins the campaign to support onshore windfarms
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Adam Vaughan
Tubs of Strawberry Breeze-cake, Cherry Gale-cia and other wind-themed ice-creams will feature in a campaign by Ben & Jerry’s to persuade the government to rethink its opposition to onshore windfarms.
“Wind Energy for the Rest of Us” E-book Re-Launched at $19.99
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The digital version of Paul Gipe’s Wind Energy for the Rest of Us has been re-launched on several platforms at $19.99, 33% off the previous e-book price.
India adds 10 GW of fresh solar in FY 2017/18, reaches 22 GW total
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Wind, meanwhile, saw a drop in installation activity due to the transition from a feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme to auction mechanism, with less than 2 GW of new wind parks coming online, a year-on-year drop of 68%.
US Wind Turbine Database On-Line Mapping Tool Launches
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Paul Gipe
The United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) has gone live according to a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) press release.
