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.
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 …
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. . .
German Wind Association Survey of Wind Turbine Service 2012
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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
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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”. . .
