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.
Dutch tender award for offshore wind plant is 25% cheaper than Hinkley C contract
By
Dave Toke
The Dutch Government has awarded a contract to build two 350 MW Borssele offshore windfarms for 87 euros per MWh (£74 per MWh), some 25 per cent cheaper than the current value of the contract for Hinkley C.
Fleet-Wide Typical Wind Energy Yields in California and the USA
By
Paul Gipe
What summary data tells us is that California wind farms generated 13.7 TWh from 6,200 MW of installed capacity in 2014. This results in a fleet-wide yield of 2,200 kWh/kW/yr. This is an important statistic for wind geeks.
Fluttering Flags, Can-can, & the Big Men of Wind Energy
By
Paul Gipe
No. That title isn’t click bate. Long ago, in a land far away, I had to give a speech on the future of wind energy. That’s not noteworthy; I do it all the time. What was noteworthy, though, was that I had to compete with can-can dancers. If this was fiction, no one would believe it.
Bird Society Leads by Example: Operates Large Wind Turbine at Headquarters
By
Paul Gipe
In early 2016 the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) installed a large wind turbine at their headquarters in central England. The 100-meter (330-foot) tall turbine was installed at the Society’s headquarters in Sandy midway between Milton Keynes and Cambridge.
Royal Society for Protection of Birds to Install 800 kW Wind Turbine
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Work begins in Sandy, Bedfordshire on 25 January, and the 100-metre tall Enercon E-53 800kW turbine will generate around 2m units of green energy every year, equivalent to over half of the electricity the RSPB uses across its 127 UK locations.
Cleveland offshore wind project awarded $40 million DOE grant to develop Lake wind farm
By
John Funk
The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $40 million to the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. to build a six-turbine pilot wind farm in Lake Erie by the end of 2018.
