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.
Technical Comparators: Swept Area preferred over Rated Power
By
Geoff Henderson
Windflow Technology Newsletter Nº 31, June 2011 Some people use capacity factor as the basis for comparing wind farms and …
North German State to Double Wind Energy on Land
By
Paul Gipe
Conservatives Increasing New Renewables from 50% to 100% of Electricity Highest Concentration of Wind in Germany–Most Locally Owned As Much Wind Generation as California
Landowner’s Guide to Wind Energy in Alberta
By
Tim Weis, Alex Doukas, and Kristi Anderson
This guide is for landowners in Alberta who are considering wind energy projects on their land. Whether you are interested in erecting and owning your own wind turbine, leasing land to a commercial wind developer, or developing wind energy on your land through other ownership models, this guide will help to explain what you can expect from the wind energy development process. . .
Gipe Receives Canadian Wind Award for Feed-in Tariff Campaign
By
Paul Gipe
Long-time renewable energy advocate Paul Gipe was selected by the Canadian Wind Energy Association for its Individual Leadership Award at …
Avian mortality from wind power, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity by Benjamin K. Sovacool
By
Benjamin Sovacool
This article explores the threats that wind farms pose to birds and bats before briefly surveying the recent literature on avian mortality and summarizing some of the problems with it. . .
The cost of wind, the price of wind, the value of wind
By
Jérôme Guillet
An excellent primer on why wind energy (and solar PV) needs feed-in tariffs. . .
