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.
Clean Energy Blog: 40 Religious Groups Practicing Creation Care with Wind Turbine
By
Simon Mahon
Creation Care merges faith with proactive solutions to protect God’s creation. Next week, the season of Lent begins for millions of faithful people around the world. To mirror the 40 days of Lent, here are 40 churches, religious schools and faith-based organizations around the world that are putting their faith to work by promoting wind energy.
New research blows away claims that ageing wind farms are a bad investment
By
Maxine Myers
In a new study, researchers from Imperial College Business School carried out a comprehensive nationwide analysis of the UK fleet of wind turbines, using local wind speed data from NASA. They showed that the turbines will last their full life of about 25 years before they need to be upgraded.
Gipe Endorses “Wind Moves Us” Campaign in Germany
By
Paul Gipe
In solidarity with BWE, I’ve endorsed their campaign by taking the small step of including one of their themes in the banner of my web site. I’ve posted one banner in the original German and one English version. The banners rotate with other images from my web site.
Claims that aging wind farms are a bad investment blown away by new research
By
Imperial College London
In a new study, researchers carried out an analysis using local wind speed data from NASA, and showed that the turbines will last their full life of about 25 years before they need to be upgraded.
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.
