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.
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. . .
Wind Turbine Land Leases, Landowner Guides, Wind Energy Royalties
By
Paul Gipe
There are a several sources of information for landowners on the typical terms and conditions for leasing land for wind …
Gore sets goal of 100% carbon-free electricity by 2020: Can Wind Meet It?
By
Jérôme Guillet
I thought I’d comment on the technical feasibility of the plan, and the underlying economics of such an endeavour. . .
One Million Megawatts of Wind Capacity for the USA: A Target Worthy of a Great Nation
By
Paul Gipe
Portion of a presentation made January 10, 2008 to Al Gore’s Solutions Summit To significantly address the United State’s contribution …
Turbine foes try to forge national opposition movement
By
Lydia Depillis
In 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, the alliance [Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound] took in almost $3.3 million in donations, including $1.1 million from oil magnate Bill Koch. The alliance employs four lobbying firms, spends about a third of its take on legal fees, pays its president $114,000, and just opened an office in Washington to lobby during the federal review process. . .
