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.
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.
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.
