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.

Toronto Star: Wind isn’t perfect, but let’s be truthful about its value

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Tyler Hamilton

This has left wind energy open to attack by those, for whatever reason, who don’t think wind turbines have a place in our electricity mix. Associated with those attacks is much misunderstanding about how wind energy interacts with our existing electricity system

Small Near-shore Wind May be Cheaper Than Far Offshore Wind Says Danish Study

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Paul Gipe

Opens Up New Possibility for Community Ownership   Danish researchers have uncovered surprising results in a study of offshore wind …

Husum Meeting Guide Celebrates Wind Energy in Schleswig-Holstein

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  Nearly Half of the Regions GDP is from Tourism Yet Nearly Two-Thirds of Schleswig-Holstein’s Wind Capacity is also in …

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Schleswig-Holstein Will Double Wind Capacity on Land

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Paul Gipe

Nearly 2% of Land Area Set Aside for Wind Energy Not 100%, Not 200%, But 300% Renewable Energy by 2020 …

Henning Holst’s Short History of the Danish Wind Industry

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Paul Gipe

Henning Holst is one of Germany’s pioneering community wind developers. Located in the center of the wind energy universe in Husum (the gray city by the sea) in northwestern Germany, he was there at the creation. . .

Danish Wind Turbine Owners Association 2012 Update

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Paul Gipe

On a recent pilgrimage-and that’s the only word for it-to Denmark in September we stopped by the Danmarks Vindmølleforening (the Danish Wind Turbine Owners Association) to visit my colleagues Asbjørn Bjerre and Steen Andersen. . .