News & Articles on Small & Household Size Wind Turbines
Small wind turbines encompass a broad range of wind turbines from micro turbines, to mini turbines, to household-size turbines. Wind turbines in these size classes may have power ratings from a few watts to dozens of kW. Internationally, this category includes wind turbines up to 15 meters (49 feet) in diameter. Wind turbines of this size may have power ratings from 50 to 100 kW.
While ducted or shrouded wind turbines and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines can be of any size, they are listed here because they are outside the mainstream of the commercial wind industry.
Paul Gipe Interview with Small Wind Newsletter
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Paul Gipe
Small Wind Newsletter: I was struck, while reading your biography, that you started out in this field at around the same time that many other renewable energy leaders (including Larry Sherwood, editor of this newsletter) began their work — the mid-to-late 1970s. The energy crisis of that time sparked a lot of passion among young people like yourself. How did you first get involved? . .
Earth Techling: Why ‘Breakthrough’ Wind Turbines Are Usually Bunk
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This is the history of wind turbine design breakthroughs. Paul Gipe, a prolific and respected writer on wind power, has seen a million of them. I asked him his view of the Catching Wind Power Compressed Air Enclosed Wind Turbine, which has been in the news a bit this past week after a New Jersey engineering firm put out a press release announcing it was looking for investors to help take the device from prototype to ready-to-manufacture product. Gipe wrote back: “It’s not original. It’s not new. It’s not significant in any way. It will be gone in a few years.”. .
DWEA: Requesting Wind Turbine Qualification Criteria for On-Site Renewable Energy Scoring
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Mike Bergey
DWEA believes the current lack of turbine certification and siting criteria under the various LEED rating systems is hurting the distributed wind industry and is counter-productive to the intent of LEED. We are requesting that USGBC add criteria that will ensure that the LEED points earned for on-site wind turbines will encourage safe and effective products and proper siting.
Britain Powered by FITs Surpasses US in 2011 Small Wind Capacity
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Paul Gipe
Expected to do the Same in 2012 New Feed-in Tariffs for 2013 The 2010 launch of Britain’s feed-in tariff …
WWEA 2012 Small Wind World Report–A Review
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Paul Gipe
I was just going to pick up the World Wind Energy Association’s 2012 Small Wind World Report and extract a few useful numbers to keep myself abreast of the small turbine industry. But once I began leafing through it, I thought others might be interested in this book and the picture it paints of the growth of interest in small wind turbines. . .
2012 Catalogue of Small Wind Turbines–A Review
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Paul Gipe
The Folkecenter for Renewable Energy (FC) has again published a handy report cataloging small wind turbines available worldwide. The FC’s 2012 Catalogue of Small Wind Turbines is the one neutral source of product information worldwide on small wind turbines less than 50 kW in capacity. . .
