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.
Two new renewable energy apps
By
Craig Morris
IRENA has come up with a truly amazing app for global renewable energy statistics and information. In addition, an Italian has released an app that helps you find wind farms worldwide.
Wind Power USA: A (silent) revolution in the wind sector
By
Bernard Chabot
Over the past few years, a dramatic shift has taken place in the type of wind turbine installed, as the US market shows. The focus is clearly on raising capacity factors by increasing tower height and rotor blade length relative to generator output.
Birthday Celebration for the World’s Oldest Operating Wind Turbine
By
Paul Gipe
May 30th Danish wind pioneers are gathering at the Tvind school in northwest Jutland to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the start of construction for the world’s oldest operating wind turbine–Tvindkraft.
America’s First Offshore Wind Farm Breaks Ground
By
Anastasia Pantsios
The Sierra Club was one of a number of groups that lobbied for the project, including the National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation and labor unions, when it was first proposed in 2009. They helped mitigate concerns that construction could disrupt whales and other marine life and that the turbines could be a threat to seabirds.
Boston Globe: Wind power’s future depends on thinking smaller
By
Derrick Z. Jackson
Providence-based Deepwater Wind recently secured financing for a long-planned 5-turbine, 30-megawatt pilot project three miles off Block Island. The turbines should be spinning by summer 2016. Deepwater Wind chief executive Jeff Grybowski said the project will allow people to “see it, feel it, touch it, and take offshore wind from theory to reality.” To best assure public acceptance, Deepwater Wind scaled back original plans calling for eight turbines to minimize “visual impacts, bottom disturbance, and other potential environmental effects.”
WWF backs push for more wind power in the Philippines
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Environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is supporting efforts to increase wind power allocation in the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme that gives incentives to renewable energy investments in the Philippines.
