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.
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
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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.
Pushback against onshore wind power in Germany gets real
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Craig Morris
Up to now, public support for wind power has been very strong in Germany. But recent changes to German law have encouraged local groups that oppose wind farms. The relegation of competence from the national to the state level means that smaller groups have a larger impact.
The Maritimes: Canada’s Secret Trailblazer in Wind Energy
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Derek Leahy
“Some electricity utility companies in Canada will tell you all you’ll ever get from wind is 10 per cent of your electrical needs,” Carl Brothers, an engineer and wind energy consultant, said. “In PEI, we are closing in on 30 per cent.”
Wind Energy for the Rest of Us First Page Proofs
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Paul Gipe
The good news is that with a smaller font size and tighter leading (the space between lines) than in my previous books, Holm has been able to substantially reduce the number of printed pages from that expected.
Wind power: Hitting an air pocket
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Sumit Jha
With tax benefits scaled down and some states reducing tariffs, there is a danger of the wind sector getting short shrift at a time of heightened focus on solar power
