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.
Power Plant Decommissioning and Dismantling: PG&E’s Kern River Power Plant—28 Years and Waiting
By
Paul Gipe
The question about what to do with wind turbines after they’ve reached the end of their useful lives is often …
Decommissioning and Dismantling Wind Turbines and Wind Plants
By
Paul Gipe
Because of a flood of misinformation about what it costs to dismantle wind turbines, I’ve chosen to post a section from my 1995 book on the topic. Note that this was written nearly two decades ago.
Specific Rated Capacity of Wind Turbines in the 1980s
By
Paul Gipe
I am posting this data for its historical context and because the question of specific capacity has come to the …
Measures of Wind Turbine Productivity
By
Paul Gipe
In my 1995 book, Wind Energy Comes of Age, I discuss various measures of wind turbine productivity, including the misleading …
Wind Turbine Rating
By
Paul Gipe
The capacity or size of wind turbines and what that means relative to how much electricity they will generate often …
Windpower Monthly: Power system reserve – No need to build wind back-up
By
Lyn Harrison
Addition of wind generation to a large power system does not require construction of back-up generating capacity.
