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 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.
Overview of Wind Energy for the International Renewable Energy Academy
By
Paul Gipe
Presentation by Paul Gipe for York University’s International Renewable Academy on 22 June 2017. Check against delivery.
Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they’re made out to be—here’s why
By
Simon Chapman
“Wind farms and nuclear power stations are responsible each for between 0.3 and 0.4 fatalities per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity while fossil-fuelled power stations are responsible for about 5.2 fatalities per GWh.”
