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.
Transfer of Distribution Rights for Gipe’s Wind Energy for the Rest of Us Completed
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Paul Gipe
4 April the transfer of remaining copies of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us to a new distributor was completed.
The Call for Wind Energy Development on Lake Erie Led by Union Members
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Sarah Taylor
Cleveland has been a city of innovation, right from the very beginning. In 1796 Moses Cleaveland, in his westward journey from Connecticut, discovered the area around the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and decided that this would be the “capital city” of the Western Reserve.
First wind farm operational in coal-reliant Bosnia
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Maja Zuvela
Bosnia’s maiden wind farm began producing electricity on Wednesday as part of the country’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and meet the renewable energy standards of the European Union it aspires to join.
Auctions didn’t make wind power cheaper, study finds
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Craig Morris
Wind power prices have plummeted in recent years since Germany switched to auctions. Now, a study has found what readers of this blog already knew: the prices only look low because they are reported as though future electricity were already being generated today.
Family want answers over death in snow on wind farm
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The family of a security guard who died after becoming trapped in heavy snow on a remote wind farm are demanding answers about his death.
Exploring the prediction of wind turbine audibility and sound annoyance with A-weighted sound levels
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Additionally, the sound-level drivers (modeled wind turbine sound level and background sound level) are poor predictors of very annoyed responses; one’s prior support for or opposition to a local project is the strongest predictor of very annoyed responses in the regression model.
