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.
State Opens Investigation Into Blasting At Deerfield Wind Site
By
Howard Weiss-tisman
Permitting for the project dragged on for more than ten years and the 30-megawatt project is expected to go online in 2018. A contract worker died on the site in April after he was electrocuted.
In Iowa Wind Opponents Turn to Animal Cruelty
By
Peter Sinclair
Science deniers needlessly killing animals, in order to needlessly kill more animals. Appalled but not surprised. People who don’t care about the massive extinctions brought on by climate change certainly won’t stop at killing innocent animals to further the fossil fuel agenda.
Firm fined $8K after death at Deerfield Wind site
By
Ed Damon
David Sprague, of Windham, Maine, was 59 years old when he was electrocuted at the Putnam Road construction site on April 18.
Why People Believe Low-Frequency Sound Is Dangerous
By
Philip Jaekl
Anxiety over “wind-turbine syndrome” stems from a decades-old misunderstanding of inaudible noise. (Jun 19, 2017)
Wild is the wind: the resource that could power the world
By
Paula Cocozza
At £57.50 per megawatt-hour (MWh), it is far cheaper than the state-backed price of £92.50 awarded in 2016 to Hinkley nuclear power station. The speed of wind’s progress is extreme and inarguable.
No appeal on wind turbine after death threats
By
Margot Taylor
The ruling would push back community wind projects by “at least a decade”.
