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.
Renewables International: The Energiewende is not just solar
By
Craig Morris
The Pew Charitable Trust makes the same mistake, essentially conflating throwing money at a problem with policy support. The main purpose of feed-in tariffs (offered for all renewable electricity, not just solar) was to bring down the cost. By calling FITs subsidies, the article falls into a trap – goal attainment (low solar prices) is now portrayed as a reduction of support.
Advancing wind power as fast as possible
By
Bernard Chabot
Bernard Chabot is back today with a comparison of three scenarios published by GWEC and two of his own published by the WWEA. The scenarios show that one strategy would be best for the short term; another, for the long term. Chabot says this combination would be a good joint proposal by both organizations at the upcoming climate talks in Lima and Paris.
Pocket English-German Wind Dictionary: Taschenwörterbuch Windenergietechnik
By
Alistair A. Tarwid
The pocket bilingual dictionary is published by OffTEC, a leading provider of training courses for onshore and offshore wind industries. The …
Renewables International: The golf-course potential of wind power in Japan
By
Thomas Gerke
Densely populated Japan is home to a mind-boggling number of golf courses. With so much land set aside for golf, how much wind power could be produced from the land area covered by golf courses in Japan?
Renewables International: The cost of wind
By
Jérôme Guillet and John Evans
That is the point of feed-in tariffs, which provide stable, predictable revenue to wind producers, and ensure that their maximum production is injected into the system at all times, which influences market prices by making supply of more expensive production unnecessary. . . These tariffs make sense for consumers. The higher fixed price (feed-in tariff) is added to the electricity buyers’ bill, but as that bill is lower, thanks to wind input, than it would have otherwise been, the actual net cost of the tariffs is much lower than it appears. . . i.e. an apparent fixed cost imposed on consumers ends up reducing their bills.
Onshore wind much more popular among public than nuclear or shale gas says DECC survey
By
Dave Toke
. . . support for onshore wind among the public is 67 per cent, with just 11 per cent opposed. Solar power is the most popular renewable fuel (82 per cent support) with offshore wind a bit ahead of onshore wind in popularity. By contrast support and opposition for shale gas is tied at 24 per cent and nuclear power is supported by 36 per cent compared to 24 per cent opposed.
