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.
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”.
Someone keeps shooting at a well-known Victorian wind farm
By
Simon Thomsen
One of Victoria’s best-known wind farms, Waubra, 35km north-west of Ballarat, has been shot at several times in recent years, police have revealed.
Floating offshore wind (part 2): Financing FOW
By
Martin Guzzetti
Given that this is offshore wind, it stands to reason that lenders and investors will work from what they know (offshore wind using fixed-bottom foundations), and try to understand how different FOW is from a risk perspective.
