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.
Schleswig-Holstein Will Double Wind Capacity on Land
By
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
By
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
By
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. . .
German Wind Association Survey of Wind Turbine Service 2012
By
Paul Gipe
At the World Wind Energy Association conference in Bonn this past July there was a session on operations and maintenance and service providers. Carlo Reeker summarized the findings of annual survey by the German Wind Turbine Owners Associations, Bundesverband WindEnergie, BWE. . .
Husum Wind Conference Launches Interactive Wind Map
By
Paul Gipe
As part of the giant Husum wind conference held every two years, organizers this past fall launched an interactive map of wind projects in the region surrounding the “grey city by the sea”. . .
New Offshore Wind in Denmark 18 Cents per kWh
By
Paul Gipe
While traveling in Denmark this year I picked up a local newspaper (Dagbladet 13 September 2012, p 32) that had an article on the huge Anholt offshore project in the northern Kattegat–the straits between Denmark and Sweden. The 400 MW project had only one bidder, DONG, and the price awarded was 1.051 DKK per kWh. At the exchange rate then this was ~$0.18 per kWh. . .
