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.
Conservative Forces at Work: The Opposition to Wind power in Australia
By
Neil Barrett
In the short to medium term the fossil fuel interests and their supporters – both witting and unwitting — are fighting the battle of their corporate lives to preserve the privileged position they’ve held for so long. Largely because of economic and environmental considerations which strongly favour renewables and possibly because of the reactions of local people such as those at Waubra, the anti-wind forces will almost certainly lose in the end, but not before they’ve done a lot of damage to Australia’s attempts to cut emissions and to the wind industry in particular.
Renewables International: How Germany’s new renewables policy will affect wind power financing
By
Craig Morris
Germany’s leading economics institute DIW has published a 36-page report in English on how the amendments to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) will impact the cost of capital for wind power investors. They find that greater risks will increase the cost of borrowed capital – thereby making this aspect of the transition more expensive.
Renewables International: The Port of Hamburg–On-site wind power is successful
By
Craig Morris
Eurogate wants to make seven million kWh available with the wind power farm and also its newly constructed combined heat and power plant (CHP). Eurogate also generates power from photovoltaic systems. Along with energy efficiency measures, Eurogate aims to achieve a full supply for the terminal and use their own power directly.
Renewables International: Germany hits 50 percent solar, Ireland 50 percent wind
By
Craig Morris
Interestingly, Ireland recently saw its share of wind power peak at 50 percent of power demand, an issue that went largely unreported (why is everyone so focused on Germany?).
Greenbyte: The Evolution of Wind Power Interactive World Map
By
Paul Gipe
Nicely done map portraying the growth of wind energy worldwide from 1980 to the present sorted by country.
Solar Wind Energy Towers: harvesting R&D dollars for decades
By
Mike Barnard
Smart people reinvent variations of these things fairly often. People get enthused about them, get people to invest, build prototypes which don’t work as hoped. The prototypes get abandoned and hopefully get torn down. There are a few around, and they pop up in speculative fiction occasionally, but they just aren’t economically viable in reality.
