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.
Vertical axis wind turbines aren’t replacing horizontal axis offshore turbines
By
Mike Barnard
Over the past few months, an interesting wrinkle on the vertical-axis-wind-turbines-are-better mythology has surfaced: that they are superior offshore and that many countries are investing heavily in offshore VAWTs. Over the course of several discussions, numerous named countries and companies were thrown at me, always without links or documents proving assertions. A little digging found a different story each time than the one being touted by offshore VAWT advocates.
Business Day: Super DAWT investment winded by critics
By
Matt Nippert
A wind energy firms’ claims it will revolutionise wind power have been questioned by critics following a US$55 million investment in it by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund.
FloDesign-Ogin Some Brief Comments
By
Paul Gipe
The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Wind Energy for the Rest of Us. It is provided here …
GET: German Feed-in tariffs do not guarantee anything
By
Craig Morris
Feed-in tariffs only pay for power produced, which depends on the weather – and no one can guarantee that.
Onshore Wind Energy Potential in Germany: UBA’s Study Includes Setbacks
By
Paul Gipe
The UBA study found 13.8% of land area suitable for wind energy; 49,000 km2, and that with contemporary wind turbines there is the astonishing 1,200,000 MW capable of generating 2,900 TWh/yr. This is nearly five times Germany’s current consumption of electricity. The study was done by Fraunhofer-Institute for Wind Energy in Kassel (IWES).
German Wind Repowering for 2012
By
Paul Gipe
Of the wind turbines installed in 2012, only 28% were installed on green field sites in Niedersachsen and only 20% in Schleswig-Holstein. The rest were installed as replacements for existing turbines that were removed as the sites were “repowered” with larger, taller, and more productive turbines.
