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.

Wind turbines could provide many local advantages

By

Peter Sinclair

A big reason Dow chose wind energy in gas-rich Texas, is that wind power has a completely predictable fuel cost (zero), which budget planners like. They don’t have to guess what their costs will be a decade in advance — creating what the company calls a “long-term competitive advantage.”

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Rebuilt USW 56-100 in the Wild

By

Paul Gipe

Renewable energy and electric vehicle fan Bob Tregilus was out and about in rural Nevada when he came across an odd wind turbine powering a well pump in the Reese River Valley. So he sent along his photos of a rebuilt USW 56-100s in the wild.

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Busting more myths about South Australia’s wind and solar

By

Hugh Saddler

Contrary to the ideas promulgated by some opponents of wind generation, most of the substantial investment in wind farms in South Australia is not being paid for by taxpayers or electricity consumers in South Australia, but was and is being built under the nationwide Large Renewable Energy Target.

It’s true, wind turbines are monstrous. But I have learned to love them

By

Alice O’keeffe

At first I resented the way they blocked the view. But now the towers look like part of a brighter future.

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.