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.
Rare New Photos Added: Chalk Bicycle Wheel Turbine & Princeton Sailwing Wind Turbine
By
Paul Gipe
I’ve added several rare photos and scans Vaughn Nelson found in his files from the 1970s. Nelson, one of the wind industry’s pioneers, has an extensive collection of experimental wind turbines from the period.
End of an Era in Small Wind–Home Power Magazine and Small Wind Conference Cease
By
Paul Gipe
Since 2010 the small wind industry in North America has been in steep decline. First Congress turned its back on the industry in the United States. Then the descent accelerated with the rapid fall in the cost of solar energy. Why install a small wind turbine when solar had become so cheap.
Presentation on Improvements to Small Wind Turbines
By
Paul Gipe
Presentation for CORE Energy Summit in Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 April 2018.
Transfer of Distribution Rights for Gipe’s Wind Energy for the Rest of Us Completed
By
Paul Gipe
4 April the transfer of remaining copies of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us to a new distributor was completed.
Liquidation Of Gaia-Wind Stems From Government Inaction On Small-Scale Renewables
By
Joshua S Hill
One of the UK’s best-known and most iconic small-scale wind companies, Gaia-Wind, has been forced into provisional liquidation and the company and outside observers are highlighting government inaction on the future of small-scale renewables as the leading cause.
Trade bodies slam Westminster for ‘inaction’ in saving Scottish renewables firm
By
Kirsteen Paterson
14th March 2018 — Yesterday trade organisation RenewableUK added its voice, calling government decision-making a “key factor” in the fall of one of the sector’s “best-known and most iconic companies”. The Feed-In Tariff – designed to encourage renewable power by rewarding the generation and export of power from green devices – is due to close to new applicants next March and RenewableUK says the failure to set out future policy is “having a serious impact”.
