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.
Hohe Akzeptanz für Windenergie dank Bürgerbeteiligung
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Agentur Für Erneuerbare Energien
“Als die Gemeindevertreter der drei Gemeinden mit diesem Konzept auf die Bürger zugingen, war das Vorhaben schnell akzeptiert“, erinnert sich Schäfer.
Don’t let wind energy stall in California
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David Hochschild and Nancy Rader
As wind energy achieves a historic milestone – surpassing the total capacity of hydropower dams to become the nation’s largest renewable energy resource – many of California’s pioneer wind projects are in danger of shutting down.
52 percent of Tory Voters in favour of Wind Farms
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A poll published in the Sunday Times shows more than half of Conservative voters think the government should do more to encourage onshore wind power. 52% of those surveyed said the building of wind farms should be encouraged, while 18% were against the building of more wind farms and thought they should be banned.
Local planning, sharing benefits key to wind-farm buy-in, study finds
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Nova Scotia policy on wind farms makes them 3 times more popular than in Ontario, study says.
The Silent Wind Revolution: Increasing the Opportunity for Distributed Wind
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Paul Gipe
Presentation before the Distributed Wind Energy Association in Washington, DC February 28, 2017
Wind Energy Development in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada
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Chad Walker
A stark, but somewhat expected finding is the high degree of support for wind energy in Nova Scotia compared to Ontario. Local support of their own nearby turbine development was three times higher in the Nova Scotia cases where community-based development was much more common, but the size (scale) of N.S. developments was also most often in the order of only one to five turbines.
