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: 3.2 GW of wind in 2013 in Germany
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Craig Morris
German wind power organization Deutsche WindGuard has published its estimates for newly installed wind power capacity for the previous year, and the results are better than expected. 2013 turns out to have been the second best year for the installation of wind turbines in history.
Icelanders Support Wind Turbines
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More than 80 percent of Icelanders support the construction of wind turbines for energy production, as indicated in a recent survey carried out by Capacent Gallup on behalf of Landsvirkjun, the national power company.
2013 was a record-setting year for Danish wind power
By
Carsten Vittrup
Never before has Energinet.dk incorporated so much wind power in the Danish power system as in 2013, and never before did the wind turbines generate what corresponds to more than 50 per cent of the Danes’ electricity consumption in one month.
El Pais: Spain breezes into record books as wind power becomes main source of energy
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Wind power was the main source of energy in Spain last year for the first time ever and also for the first time ever in any country, according to the industry association AEE.
New Smith-Putnam Records Uncovered Include Log Books
By
Paul Gipe
Archivists at the York County Heritage Trust have uncovered a treasure trove of records from the 1.25 MW Smith-Putnam turbine …
No More Coal Being Burned in Ontario: Happy New Year
By
Glen Estill
Between 1 and 2 PM, December 31 2013, the last coal fired generating station in Ontario stopped producing power. No more coal will be burned in Ontario to produce power. The coal shutdown is the largest climate initiative in Canada, and is a significant milestone.
