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.
Photos of One-Bladed Wind Turbines Posted
By
Paul Gipe
I’ve posted archival photos of one-bladed wind turbines in Germany and Italy under the section Large Wind Turbines.
Esperance Express: Wind Farm Celebrates 20 Years in Australia
By
Elizabeth Langdale
It has been 10 years since the Nine Mile Beach wind farm was commissioned and 20 years since the Ten Mile Lagoon wind farm was commissioned. . .
Wind Power Silent Revolution: New Wind Turbines for Light Wind Sites
By
Bernard Chabot
This article demonstrates that those claims are realistic and that such new turbines models for this kind of sites open new opportunities for onshore wind development with specific advantages: more TWh delivered per GW and per year, higher penetration rates, new opportunities for wind developers, including farmers and cooperatives located in those light wind speed regions, lower competition for access to convenient sites, and specific advantages for grid operators: much more hours of operation per year at rated power and less GW of peak transmission capacity for given medium and long term targets in terms of TWh/year or penetration rates.
More Wine Labels Featuring Wind Turbines Posted under Cultural Icons
By
Paul Gipe
Wine labels often celebrate the local landscape, the paysage in French. So it is fitting that vineyards add scenes depicting landscapes with wind turbines to their wine labels. . .
Photos of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
By
Paul Gipe
I’ve added photos of historical interest to my web pages on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) and Darrieus turbines of various designs. . .
DAF-Indal 50 kW Longest Lived Canadian Darrieus?
By
Paul Gipe
In 1997, Canadian meteorologist Jim Salmon reported that a 50 kW DAF-Indal turbine at Christopher Point, on the southern tip …
