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.
Betz: Everything You Need to Know about Wind Turbines Was Written in 1927
By
Paul Gipe
Yes, I’ve written about this subject once before, Everything You Need to Know about Wind Energy Was Written in 1957!, but I am moving the date back thirty years in the light of more research. The more I learn about wind energy, the more I realize how little I know.
Siemens Wind Power to close Ontario turbine blade plant, cut 340 jobs
By
Josh O’kane
A wind-turbine-blade factory in Southwestern Ontario that Siemens Wind Power Ltd.’s former parent company called “a key part of our global supply chain” just last September is winding down operations, leaving 340 employees in Tillsonburg, Ont., without work by early next year.
Wind Day in Woodstock, Ontario
By
Paul Gipe
York University’s International Renewable Energy Academy designated 29 June as the “wind day” on their week-long program.
Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned?
By
Joseph Rand; Ben Hoen
(1) North American support for wind has been consistently high. (2) The NIMBY explanation for resistance to wind development is invalid. (3) Socioeconomic impacts of wind development are strongly tied to acceptance.
China To Install 403 Gigawatts Of Wind Energy Over Next Decade, According To MAKE Consulting
By
Joshua S Hill
The Chinese Government is therefore set to publish at least 2 or 3 additional reductions to the onshore wind FiT level before 2023.
Was America’s First Offshore Wind Farm Unfairly Blamed For A Whale’s Death?
By
Alexander C. Kaufman
Right-wing media find a new renewable energy bogeyman.
