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.
Wind Surpasses Nuclear in China
By
J. Matthew Roney
Wind has overtaken nuclear as an electricity source in China. In 2012, wind farms generated 2 percent more electricity than nuclear power plants did, a gap that will likely widen dramatically over the next few years as wind surges ahead. . .
Guardian: Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives
By
Suzanne Goldenberg, Us Environment Correspondent
Secretive funding network channelled millions to stop state governments moving towards renewable energy
Sandia’s Retrospective of VAWT Technology—A Review
By
Paul Gipe
This review was a case of cleaning my desktop and before electronically filing away Sandia’s year-old report on its work …
FloWind: The World’s Most Successful VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine)
By
Paul Gipe
Note: The following is an excerpt from my 2009 book Wind Energy Basics Revised: A Guide to Home- and Community-scale …
Some Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) Resources on the Web
By
Paul Gipe
In preparing for a review of a Sandia report on its decades-long research on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs), especially …
Renewables International: Spain sets record for wind power production
By
Craig Morris
Since the beginning of November, wind power has been the largest source of electricity within Spain – ahead of even nuclear and coal power – according to the Spanish wind power association’s blog. While the country got around a sixth of its electricity from wind turbines in 2011, the figure now regularly reaches 25 percent, putting wind power production in Spain close to the Danish average of 30 percent for 2012.
