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.
REM: Anti-wind farm propaganda dismissed by Advertising Standards Agency
By
Robin Whitlock
In a significant victory for the UK wind sector over anti-wind propagandists, the UK Advertising Standards Authority have banned a leaflet stating that a 5.4MW wind farm planned for Wiltshire would depress house prices. The campaigners from ‘Stop Grange Farm Wind Farm’ have become the latest in a number of UK anti-wind groups to fall foul of the ASA.
Enterprise-Bulletin: Judge awards costs to wind company
By
Morgan Ian Adams
“It is erroneous to interpret the reasons as establishing a precedent for the degree of proof required to establish a decrease in property values in these circumstances,” wrote Justice Healey in her decision. “…this court was invited to, and did, engage in a legal fiction in order to cast the plaintiffs’ case in its most favorable light. That legal fiction involved accepting, without requiring the plaintiffs to prove, that they were currently experiencing a decrease in their property values as a result of the announcement of the wind project.
Pembina: Study finds Albertans file few complaints about wind power
By
Benjamin Thibault
No other province in Canada has a longer history with wind energy than Alberta, which has 20 years of experience with utility-scale wind farms. Yet, unlike some parts of the country, we don’t tend to hear much about it, so my colleagues and I wondered whether, in fact, we were just missing something.
Toronto Star: Fairview wind farm opponents must pay legal costs
By
John Spears
A group of landowners who unsuccessfully sued a wind power developer and the farm corporation that leased it land have been ordered to pay legal costs of $107,370.78. . . the proposed eight-turbine wind farm, known as the Fairview Wind Project, still hasn’t received final regulatory approval.
Hometown Wind Farm A Wildcat
By
Paul Gipe
Wind energy is growing in Indiana. Now there are some wind turbines in Upland on the Taylor University campus and there are two commercial-scale turbines Union City as well. Wind farms have also begun to sprout out of Indiana’s corn fields.
Iceland Introduces Wind Turbines
By
Paul Gipe
Renowned for its development of geothermal energy, Iceland has longed downplayed the potential of wind energy on the windy island …
