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.
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.
Renewables International: 3.2 GW of wind in 2013 in Germany
By
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.
