Who Built the World's First Wind Farm? Times change. People die. The rest forget. The past is lost and with it the knowledge we gained at so much cost.[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, History of Wind Power, News on Wind Energy

Airborne Wind Energy Company Closes Shop, Opens Patents This week, a 13-year experiment in harnessing wind power using kites and modified gliders finally closes down for good. Category: Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines, Small Wind folder

Material Intensity of Wind Turbines A question arises whether large wind turbines are more or less materially intensive than small wind turbines. The answer, as with most things in life, isn't that simple. [more] Category: News on Large Wind, News on Wind Energy

Greek enviro orgs warn of poorly sited wind farms after pelican deaths Seven environmental organisations in Greece denounced the installation of wind turbines near protected habitats after three pelicans were found dead on Sunday following collision with blades. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Land-based wind energy cost trends in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the United States This resulted in an average levelized cost of energy (LCOE) fall of 33% for new projects to 48€/MWh at the end of the study period. Analysis of the components of levelized cost change indicated that... Category: News on Large Wind

Let Project Icebreaker break the ice Imagine this: thousands of wind turbines situated in our Great Lakes, out of sight from treasured coastal vistas but close enough to be economically viable. Technology and site placement mitigate... Category: News on Large Wind

Teen found dead in Jeep on wind-farm access road in Cambria County An autopsy Saturday revealed the cause of death to be multiple blunt force trauma to the upper torso, the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown is reporting. Category: Accidents & Safety, News on Large Wind

'Recipe for disaster': Heavy fines as US wind farm worker dies helping buried colleague Renewable energy developer RES and two contractors were condemned over the “heartbreaking and completely preventable” death of a wind farm worker who died while trying to rescue a colleague after a... Category: News on Large Wind, Accidents & Safety

Wind energy: New industry standard for dismantling, disassembly, recycling and recovery A standard for dismantling and recycling of wind turbines presently exists neither in Germany nor in Europe. This changed on July 17, 2020, when the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) e.V.... Category: News on Large Wind

Past OSHA inspections reveal health concerns at LM Wind Power The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into how 145 LM Wind Power employees contracted COVID-19 in March and April. Category: News on Large Wind, Accidents & Safety

Trump officials address prospects and challenges of California offshore wind development The state's central coast presents particular opportunities for offshore wind development, since it is equipped with transmission infrastructure that was built to carry deliveries from the 2,000 MW... Category: News on Large Wind

Windkraft im "Dritten Reich": Der Traum vom Reichskraftturm Hermann Honnef and his dream of giant wind turbines powering Hitler's Third Reich until the SS quashed his plans. Auf Deutsch. Rare photos of Honnef's vision and key players in the Reich's program... Category: News on Large Wind, History of Wind Power

Wind Engineering with Rosie Budding Youtube channel by Australian Rosemary Barnes dubbed Wind Engineering with Rosie. [more] Category: History of Wind Power, News on Wind Energy

Fifteen people killed in Mexican village linked to windpower dispute The area – where many residents belong to the Ikoots indigenous group – is coveted for its open, windy coast, and the two sides have been feuding for years. The conflicts date back to 2012 when a... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Cleveland's Icebreaker -- Falling Down or Starting Up? Or how the Ohio Power Board's poison pill to stop the first offshore wind farm in Lake Erie could--and should--backfire.[more] Category: News on Large Wind

Malta police say they have started Montenegro wind farm investigations This emerged from a statement issued by the police following a story by Reuters and the Times of Malta, in which Dubai based company 17 Black was revealed to have made a previously undisclosed profit... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

Company Probed by Murdered Maltese Journalist Linked to Montenegro Wind Farm The offshore company investigated by murdered Maltese journalist Caruana Galizia before her death was linked to a wind farm in Montenegro, Reuters has reported. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Wind farms 'turn off times' could help save Eastern European bat populations The scientists therefore recommend the widespread introduction of turn-off times during the migration months, which—as the team was able to show in a local wind farm—would massively decrease bat... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

Ohio siting board’s poison pill to kill pioneering Lake Erie wind project shows a state in thrall to major energy interests When it comes to energy in Ohio, there’s always a whiff of wrongdoing in the air. And the smell can almost always be traced to the vicinity of Broad and High streets in Columbus, where various state... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Ontario court overturns halt to EDPR wind farm An Ontario appeal court has reinstated EDP Renewables’ right to build a 100MW wind farm after the government abruptly revoked consent for the project. Category: News on Large Wind, Ontario FIT

LM Wind employee dies; uncertain if related to COVID-19 An LM Wind Power employee has died, but it is unclear if the death is related to the COVID-19 outbreak at the plant. In a message sent to employees Wednesday afternoon, the company announced that... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Michael Moore’s new movie production, Planet of the Humans--A critique One fully expects a Moore movie to be in-your-face contentious, provocative, and highly controversial. That it certainly is, but not in an accurate way, riddled as it is with out-of-date information,... Category: Renewable Energy, Wind Energy & the Environment, Fossil Fuels

The Devil Wears a Halo: Ducted Turbine Rises from the Grave Flamboyant ducted wind turbine venture Ogin died a costly death in 2017, taking with it hundreds of millions in investments. The debacle tarnished the reputations of Technology Review, Arpa (DOE's...[more] Category: FloDesign-Ogin

Sweden erects the first wooden wind turbine tower Swedish engineering and industrial design company Modvion has erected the first wooden wind turbine tower on an island outside Gothenburg, Sweden. It was a pilot project for the Swedish Wind... Category: News on Large Wind

Derelict FloDesign-Ogin Ducted Device Still Standing in Antelope Valley Yep, it's still there. Derelict and long abandoned, the FloDesign-Ogin prototype ducted wind turbine is still standing in the Antelope Valley between I-5 and Lancaster and north of Hwy 138.[more] Category: FloDesign-Ogin

Struggling Distributed Wind Sector Eyes Role in Microgrids Market Cheaper turbine models, possible demand from the growing microgrid market, and an intensifying focus on distributed energy resources in general may all contribute to putting some wind back in the... Category: Small Wind folder

New York Attorney General blocks WNY “wind turbine inventor” from using investor funds for personal use According to the complaint, Stimm raised more than $3.5 million from 435 investors in WNY over the years, utilizing illegal sales and false and misleading statements. Category: Shrouded & Ducted Wind Turbines

My Feedback on the Film "Planet of the Humans" Neal Livingston called and asked me to watch the film Planet of the Humans and provide some context on the environmental benefits of renewable energy. Neal's an award-winning documentary film maker...[more] Category: News on Solar Energy, Wind Energy & the Environment, Renewable Energy

Environmentalists demand that Michael Moore’s anti-EV film be retracted On Earth Day, a documentary entitled “Planet of the Humans” appeared on Michael Moore’s YouTube channel. You might expect a film from the acclaimed rabble-rousing film director, who served as... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Michael Moore’s dangerous documentary Anyone interested in saving the planet who watched this poor excuse of a film, would come away thinking solar and wind energy were bad, and electric cars were horrible. I’m not kidding. Category: News on Solar Energy, Wind Energy & the Environment, Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles

Distributor pulls Michael Moore’s (@MMFlint’s) #PlanetOfTheHumans due to truthiness & errors Gibbs’ and Moore’s truthiness and falsehood-filled product isn’t helpful because they created something that is being leveraged by climate deniers/delayers to attack (not complete, need to improve,... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, Renewable Energy, News on Solar Energy

Film Review: Forget about PLANET OF THE HUMANS by Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore Shame on these filmmakers for making a film like this, full of misinformation and disinformation, to intentionally depress audiences, and make them think there are no alternatives.[more] Category: Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles, Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Solar Energy

More Tests Planned After Wind Turbine Plant Virus Outbreak Health officials and National Guard members plan a second round of large-scale testing in Grand Forks as a result of an earlier coronavirus outbreak associated with a wind turbine blade factory in... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

Webinar: Wind Power Markets Around the World (recording available) Visit virtually many of the world’s most important wind markets with us, listen to WWEA partners and take part in interactive discussions with our speakers! Category: News on Large Wind

CANCELLED DUE to COVID-19 LOCKDOWN--34nd Annual Windmill-Wildflower Hike Planned for Tehachapi May 16, 2020 The Kern-Kaweah Chapter of the Sierra Club will lead a hike among the wind turbines on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) at 9:00 am on Saturday May 16, 2020 near Tehachapi, California. [more] Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

The English Windmill Video by Martyn Taylor Martyn Taylor has made a wonderful video about the development and preservation of the English windmill. Sales of the video will go to preservation efforts.[more] Category: History of Wind Power, book Reviews, News on Wind Energy

Movie Madness: New Additions to Cultural Icons--Wallpaper, Quilts, and More A few decades ago a theme--or meme in today's parlance--among wind energy aficionados was movies or TV shows that included scenes of wind turbines. We dubbed the theme Movie Madness.[more] Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

The Need for and the Value of the World Wind Energy Association The World Wind Energy Association was formed because existing organizations were narrowly focused on the often arcane and specialized needs of the commercial wind industry. There was no organization...[more] Category: News on Large Wind, News on Community Power, Essays

RIP Google Makani: Perhaps The Entire Airborne Wind Energy Space Will Finally Disappear Makani was still being touted as the leader in the space for the 2019 Airborne Wind Energy Conference, held in Scotland in August. And now, it’s dead. Alphabet pulled the plug a couple of days ago.... Category: News on Large Wind, Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Open Letter to German Energy Minister: Community Power is Most Important for the Acceptance of Wind Power For three decades, citizens, e.g. in local energy cooperatives, have been promoting the energy transition, by initiating and installing individual wind turbines and later also larger wind farms.... Category: News on Community Power, News on Large Wind

Push for wind farms off Central Coast now has Navy’s support A key gatekeeper with the U.S. Navy says they are ready to move forward on plans for offshore wind along the Central Coast — particularly efforts to install floating turbines off of Morro Bay. Category: News on Large Wind

A Dangerous Trend is Challenging the Success of Wind Power Around the Globe: Concentration and Monopolisation The primary reason, let’s be clear, has been the global trend towards support schemes which favour large investors; in particular, auctions have caused such results. Looking at the frightening... Category: News on Large Wind

Santa Barbara County supervisors deny appeals, approve wind energy project On a 4-0-1 vote, with 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam absent, the board denied the appeals and granted de novo approval of the project southwest of Lompoc but added a new condition and expanded... Category: News on Large Wind

Raptor Center study is a step toward avoiding wind turbine deaths Researchers, including Dr. Julia Ponder, executive director of the Raptor Center, want to learn what frequencies and levels of sound can be heard by the birds, and their reactions to them. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Driving Electric: If Not Now, When? Presentation for the Buena Vista Group of the Kern-Kaweah Chapter of the Sierra Club 1 February 2020 Bakersfield, California. Check against delivery. Category: Presentations by Paul Gipe, Electric Vehicles

Why do so many US workers fall to their deaths? There were 5,250 fatal work injuries in the US in 2018, with falls a leading cause of death – and cuts in government oversight may lead to more Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, Accidents & Safety

Documents Detail Harrowing Attempts to Save Chehalis Man at Wind Project Site When a trench partially collapsed on a coworker at the Skookumchuck Wind Project outside of Rainier on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 9, 24-year-old Chehalis man Jonathan Stringer didn’t hesitate.... Category: News on Large Wind, Accidents & Safety

A breath of fresh air: How Latvia can increase wind power capacity tenfold by 2030 Latvia has had a system of support for energy production in place for many years, based on compensating investment through a feed-in tariff (FiT). However, the support has been provided not only to... Category: Latvia, News on Large Wind Turbines

Worker Dies, Another Injured After Trench Collapse at Skookumchuck Wind Project Site One person working at the Skookumchuck Wind Project construction site is dead and another is critically injured after a trench collapsed on the two workers Thursday morning. Category: News on Large Wind, Accidents & Safety, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

With coal under fire, 2020 could be a big year for wind power in Japan The International Energy Agency said in a report in November that by 2040, offshore wind power alone has the potential to meet Japan’s total power demand by over ninefold and the world’s total... Category: News on Large Wind

ROBERT PRICE: Why wind energy is a multi-faceted disaster, according to Trump America's foremost scholar on the power-generating prowess of wind turbines has been challenged by a lesser expert from Bakersfield. That foremost scholar, according to President Trump, is President... Category: News on Large Wind Turbines, Wind Energy & the Environment

Taiwan Feed-in tariff raised for small onshore wind farms The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on Tuesday announced the 2020 feed-in tariff (FIT) rates for renewable energy generation, with the rate for onshore wind power facilities with a capacity of 1... Category: News on Large Wind, Taiwan FIT

Bronx wind turbine’s blades fly off, smashing car and billboard The turbine started spinning on Dec. 17, providing power to nearby buildings, according to the Bronx Times. Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

VAWT Topples To Ground In The Bronx, Destroys Billboard And Car A wind turbine collapsed in the Bronx on Monday, setting off a frightening series of events. Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Beating swords into plowshares or wind turbines & solar panels: We could have done it Yes, the United States could be generating 100% of its electricity from renewable energy if we had used the money spent on our ill-advised wars in the Middle East to build wind and solar systems, as... Category: Essays, Renewable Energy, News on Wind Energy, News on Solar Energy

Musselroe Wind Farm to deploy bird protecting radar in Australian first trial Tasmania’s Musselroe Wind Farm will undertake an Australian first trial of new radar technology that the operators hope will help reduce instances of collisions with wedge-tailed eagles. Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

Ireland fined €5m plus daily penalty of €15,000 over landslides at Galway wind farm THE EU’S COURT of Justice has fined the State €5m over its failure to comply with EU legislation that might have prevented landslides linked to the construction of a wind farm in the west of Ireland... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Denmark shows the world how to go from black to green in a hurry as temperatures rise Don’t believe everything you hear about the green-energy revolution. It’s coming, but more slowly than advertised. Fossil fuels, in absolute terms, are still on the rise because of population and... Category: News on Large Wind

Cologne VAWT Update--Still Not Working and Still Not Removed Thilo Wirth was working in the LVR building the Cologne district of Köln-Deutz and sent me his cell-phone picture of the Clean VerTec wind turbine on the roof. [more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Rooftop & Urban Wind, Worst Turbine Install in History

Wind generation project southwest of Lompoc approved by Santa Barbara County planners Commissioners approved the Strauss Wind Energy Project that will bring 29 wind turbines mounted to towers more than 260 feet tall and capable of generating 98 megawatts of electricity per year to the... Category: News on Large Wind

Gusty growth: Vietnam’s remarkable wind energy story The latest feed-in-tariff for onshore projects, introduced last year, stands at 8.5 US cents/kWh, while offshore wind power generators will be paid 9.8 US cents for every kWh of power exported to the... Category: Vietnam FIT, News on Large Wind

This article is more than 1 month old Renewable energy: climate crisis 'may have triggered faster wind speeds' The global climate crisis could lead to more renewable electricity being generated by spurring faster wind speeds for the world’s growing number of windfarms, according to research. Category: News on Large Wind

The Big Ban of Wind Energy One of the reasons is the failed policy of leaving the working feed-in tariff in favor of an experiment with auctions. Said experiment has failed in a spectacular way. As a part of my job I follow... Category: News on Large Wind, Germany FIT, Wind Energy & the Environment

Wind energy and health court cases found for wind energy Wind energy was found not guilty of health impacts 48 times in 5 countries Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

No, there aren’t 14,000 abandoned wind turbines littered across the United States "It’s bullshit," said Paul Gipe, who has published five books on wind energy since 1995 and who has closely studied California’s wind farms. (Now the American Wind Energy Association does that.) Category: News on Large Wind, Debunking Myths about Wind Energy

Study finds way to save bats from 'bad rap' from wind turbines Preliminary results from a study involving a wind turbine at Heartland Community College in Normal indicate that using software that turns off turbine blades at lower wind speeds can cut bat... Category: News on Large Wind

Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm, researchers estimate the U.S. will have more than 720,000 tons of blade material to dispose of over the next 20... Category: News on Large Wind

Trump firm 'refusing to pay' legal bill for windfarm case Donald Trump’s family firm is refusing to accept a legal bill worth tens of thousands of pounds after he lost a lengthy court battle against a windfarm near his Aberdeenshire golf course, according... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

The Potential for Ducted Wind Turbines in an Urban Environment An MIT student's defense of urban ducted wind turbines. Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Incident at Arcosa results in 1 death, 1 injury A fatal, work-related incident this past weekend at Arcosa, a wind tower manufacturing plant in Newton, has resulted in one person dead and another critically injured, the Newton Fire Department... Category: News on Large Wind, Accidents & Safety

Casper Regional Landfill begins burying turbine blades One wind farm in Glenrock and two from the Saratoga area have partnered with the Casper Regional Landfill to dispose of their old wind turbine blades. More than 900 blades will be brought to the... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

Benchmarking Anticipated Wind Project Lifetimes: Results from a Survey of U.S. Wind Industry Professionals We find that most wind project developers, sponsors and long-term owners have increased project-life assumptions over time, from a typical term of ~20 years in the early 2000s to ~25 years by the... Category: News on Large Wind

We Danes know a lot about wind turbines. You can learn, too, President Trump. Good news — neither the president nor anyone else will lose their wealth because of wind energy. On the contrary. A green energy system is cheaper, cleaner and safer than most systems dependent on... Category: News on Large Wind

Les éoliennes Sogréah-Neyrpic French historian Étienne Rogier examines in depth one of the great wind turbine development programs of the post WWII years. En francais. Category: History of Wind Power

Family of man (29) who died while cutting trees, settles for six figure sum The family of a 29-year old man who died while clearing trees for construction of a wind farm has settled various legal actions for a substantial six figure sum. Category: Accidents & Safety

Mystery surrounds animal deaths on France's farms Farmers in France are claiming that electromagnetic fields created by wind farms and other electrical installations are leading to low productivity and high rates of mortality. Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Wanted to Buy Honeywell Windtronics 6500 Alan Grimsley, Director of Business Development of White Electrical is seeking to buy a Honeywell Windtronics 6500. Grimsley wants the device for experimentation.[more] Category: Windtronics

Weird Wind Turbine Designs Vaughn Nelson has pulled together some links to web pages that display either humanity's incredible ingenuity relative to wind energy, or humanity's folly, depending upon your point of view.[more] Category: Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Montana WindJammer IV Infomercial In another blast from the past, Vaughn Nelson has tracked down a promotional film (now on youtube) from August 1985 of the Windjammer IV sail wing wind turbine. Patterned after Cretan sail windmills,...[more] Category: Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Heidelberg Motor's VAWT Video In research for his new book, Vaughn Nelson is turning up a number of fascinating videos. One he found is a video of Heidelberg Motor's H-rotor operating in Germany. The VAWT was unusual in that the...[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Optiwind Demolition--The Fate of Many Revolutionary Wind Turbines In the research for his new book, Vaughn Nelson has been dredging up some amazing videos. (See Hywind Scotland Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Video.) [more] Category: Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines, Small Wind folder

Wulf Small Wind Turbine Test Field Closed In another sign of the times, I've closed Wulf Field and sold the property to the neighboring wind farm managed by Windstream Properties.[more] Category: Small Turbine Testing

Hywind Scotland Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Video I don't often comment or link to news about offshore wind projects or technology. There's plenty of land available for wind energy. In most cases we don't need to go offshore. [more] Category: News on Large Wind

Wind-power critic and 'world's greatest climate sceptic' dies Christopher Booker had campaigned vociferously against wind turbines for over a decade, describing them as 'one of the most dangerous political delusions of our time' Category: News on Large Wind Turbines

Construction worker at site of Iowa wind farm killed A worker at the site of a wind farm under construction in north-central Iowa has died after being run over by a semitrailer. Category: News on Large Wind Turbines, Accidents & Safety

Benchmarking Wind Power Operating Costs in the United States: Results from a Survey of Wind Industry Expert We find that average all-in lifetime OpEx has declined from approximately $80/kW-yr (~$35/MWh) for projects built in the late 1990s to a level that is approaching $40/kW-yr (~$11/MWh) for projects... Category: News on Large Wind Turbines

Cologne VAWT Captured on Grainy Cell Phone Pics While deleting some old files--yes, I am one of those who deletes unnecessary files--I came across two photos I meant to post in 2018.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Rooftop & Urban Wind

CEO Linked To Failed Wind Farm Indicted On Federal Wire Fraud, Money Laundering Charges Davis was CEO of Dragonfly Industries International, LLC, which sought to build a wind farm on 300 acres near in Elm Springs for electric power generation in 2015. Category: News on Large Wind, Small Wind folder

Bonn Community Power Declaration At the same time, we notice with growing concern that there are increasing barriers against the rapid growth of renewable energy globally, e.g. through the introduction of auctions in the renewable... Category: News on Community Power, News on Large Wind

Successful 33rd Windmill-Wildflower Hike in Near Perfect Weather Seventeen intrepid hikers crossed the Cameron Canyon segment of the Pacific Crest Trail Saturday on the 33rd annual Windmill-Wildflower hike near Tehachapi, California. [more] Category: News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

Can sound protect eagles from wind turbine collisions? One possible way to prevent these deaths is to chase the birds away with acoustic signals—sound. To determine what types of sounds are most effective in deterring the birds, researchers at the... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Gipe Receives Distinguished Alumni Award for His "Notoriety" in Wind Energy On 26 April 2019 the alumni association of the Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department at my alma mater, Ball State University, presented me with its Award of Distinction, the...[more] Category: News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

11 companies want to build offshore wind farms near Morro Bay, Diablo Canyon Massive pods of 700-foot floating wind turbines off the coast of California are edging closer to becoming a reality, now that the state has firm applications from several companies hoping to realize... Category: News on Large Wind

Northern Power Systems Corp. Announces Disposition of Its US Service Business and Board Resignation It is uncertain if the Company’s efforts (i) to address its cash constraints and its legal difficulties with Comerica and/or (ii) to effect one or more strategic transactions will be successful. Category: Small Wind folder

French farmers sue the state over mystery cow deaths they blame on electromagnetic fields A group of French cattle farmers is suing the state over the mysterious death of hundreds of cows, which they believe are the victims of harmful electromagnetic fields. Local vets are at a loss to... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

33nd Annual Windmill-Wildflower Hike Planned for Tehachapi May 18, 2019 The Kern-Kaweah Chapter of the Sierra Club will lead a hike among the wind turbines on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) at 9:00 am on Saturday May 18, 2019 near Tehachapi, California. [more] Category: News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

Bakersfield Californian: Trump ‘tilts at windmills’ with bogus cancer claim No, Mr. President, windmills don’t cause cancer. What they do cause is the creation of thousands of jobs and businesses in Kern County, and technical innovations that help keep America energy... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Text of Mr. President, Thank You for Your Comments about Windmills Thank you, Mr. President, for the timely attention. My recent book about windmills, or what we call wind turbines, has been languishing in a New York warehouse not far from Trump Tower--until now,...[more] Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us

COMMUNITY VOICES: Mr. President, thank you for your comments about windmills Thank you, Mr. President, for the timely attention. My recent book about windmills, or what we call wind turbines, has been languishing in a New York warehouse not far from Trump Tower — until now,... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Fact-Checking President Trump’s Assessment of Wind Power and Electric Vehicles U.S. President Donald Trump mocked renewable energy at yesterday's campaign rally in Michigan. Implicating Hillary Clinton as part of Big Wind, Trump said, "If Hillary got in...you'd be doing wind.... Category: News on Large Wind, Electric Vehicles

Navy may oppose wind farms off Morro Bay — but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen The dream of Morro Bay as a new hub of offshore renewable energy production in California could be over before it even gets its sea legs — or it could just be ramping up. Category: News on Large Wind

How Many Offshore Wind Turbines are needed to Power the World's Major Cities? While there is ample land area for both wind and solar power plants, there is also ample area offshore of major metropolitan areas to power the world's major cities.[more] Category: News on Large Wind

French Offshore VAWT Developer Nénuphar Goes Bust The French offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine developer Nénuphar closed its doors in early 2018. Their web site is dark, though there are several Nenuphar Animations on YouTube.com.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Darrieus Wind Turbine Technology Assessment Study (1992) One of the conclusions then is no doubt true today: "There is no well established relationship between Darrieus wind turbine prototype costs and volume production costs because only one company,...[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

One on One: World-renowned wind energy expert Paul Gipe talks about California's energy future World-renowned wind energy expert Paul Gipe of Bakersfield joined The Californian's Robert Price for his weekly "One on One" webcast to talk about California's energy future. Gipe said PG&E's... Category: News on Large Wind, News on Wind Energy, Renewable Energy, Fossil Fuels

Japanese Offshore Wind To Hit 4 Gigawatts In 2028 Japan’s nascent offshore wind industry is expected to increase dramatically over the next ten years, according to energy analysts Wood Mackenzie, who predict that by 2028 the island country will... Category: News on Large Wind

Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator--A Review by Glen Estill Gregory Jaczko was an outsider. He wasn’t from the industry. But somehow he was appointed to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, eventually becoming its Chair. His 2019 book, Confessions of a...[more] Category: book Reviews, Nuclear Power

Text of "The Troubling Budweiser Ad on Tejon Ranch" Op-Ed Peddling green works. After watching Budweiser's 2019 Superbowl commercial-- the Clydesdales racing through wheat fields on Tejon Ranch, with wind turbines turning serenely in the background--I...[more] Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

The Answer Is Blowin’ in the Wind How about just one really important climate-control thought? How about windmills? If the country really threw itself into wind power, we could, er, breeze toward our goals on that alone. Wind... Category: News on Wind Energy

COMMUNITY VOICES: The troubling Budweiser ad on Tejon Ranch Peddling green works. After watching Budweiser's 2019 Superbowl commercial-- the Clydesdales racing through wheat fields on Tejon Ranch, with wind turbines turning serenely in the background--I... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Up in the Air--Be a voice for change Up in the Air is a short film about the wind turbine project in Prince Edward County. For nearly two decades, a group of County residents have been supporting wind energy initiatives. The White Pines... Category: News on Large Wind, News on Community Power, Wind Energy & the Environment

Fleming wind farm accident victim ID'd he Logan County Sheriff's Office identified Carl Pierce, 41, of Portland, Ore., as the man who was pronounced dead at the wind tower work site Tuesday. Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Modern History of Vertical-Axis (Darrieus) Wind Turbines Published Elsevier has published an extensive survey of attempts at building commercial Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines on its digital platform. The print version of the survey by Swedish academic Erik Möllerström...[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

A historical review of vertical axis wind turbines rated 100 kW and above Since the 1970s, there have been several VAWT projects with installed turbines of significant size, either as attempts to commercialize VAWTs, or as university led research projects, or as a... Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

‘Green energy blues’ in a town that sought to do something about climate change Nine years after the first was built beside Falmouth’s waste treatment plant, both turbines now stand idle, no longer producing a kilowatt of electricity, totems of good intentions gone awry. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

California Worker Dies after Blade Falls Off Wind Machine The Associated Press circulated a news item on 14 January 2019 about a field hand killed near Visalia when the blade of a "wind machine" fell off. See California orchard worker dies after 600-pound...[more] Category: Accidents & Safety, News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

Offshore wind turbines have forced loons into smaller habitats, study says A new study published in the Journal of Environmental Management has found that offshore wind turbines in the German North Sea are having an effect on where birds fly and land. As a result, loons... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment

Wedge-tailed eagles killed by wind turbines at Yaloak South wind farm in Moorabool Shire The renewable energy company Pacific Hydro confirmed to The Courier that three deaths of the eagle – Australia’s largest bird of prey – have been recorded at the wind farm since it began operating in... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment

Videos of the Defunct Sheerwind-Invelox Ducted Device Still Up Sheerwind-Invelox, a ducted-turbine fiasco, officially went bust in early 2018. Incredibly, there are a number of promotional videos still on line at youtube.com and on vimeo. The latter is even more...[more] Category: Sheerwind-Invelox

Video footage of FloDesign-Ogin Antelope Valley Prototype DAWT While poking around on the Internet to see if anything new had popped up on some of my favorite ducted turbine projects I came across some videos of FloDesign-Ogin that I hadn't seen before.[more] Category: FloDesign-Ogin

Correction to the Death of Robert Skarski in Wind Power 2004 I've been alerted to an error in the second edition of Wind Power (2004): Renewable Energy for Home Farm and Business.[more] Category: Small Wind folder, Accidents & Safety, News on Large Wind, News on Wind Energy

Should the Central Coast be a new hub for wind energy in California? Read more here: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article223109435.html#storylink=cpy Hundreds of wind turbines could pop up along the coast off Los Osos and Cambria — but before they do,the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Managment wants to know if you think that’d be a good idea. Category: News on Large Wind

Pioneering Bat Deterrent System from NRG Systems Reduces Bat Fatalities by 54 Percent at Texas Wind Energy Facility A trial of its ultrasonic acoustic Bat Deterrent System reduced overall bat fatalities at the Los Vientos Wind Energy Facility in Starr County, Texas, by 54 percent. The results of the test prove... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment

We’ve turned our backs on wind energy. That’s a mistake Texas now produces four times as much wind energy as California, which has fallen to No. 4 in the United States — not a promising trend, given the state’s ambitious goal of switching to 100 percent... Category: News on Large Wind

OSHA Investigating Worker Death at Iowa Wind Farm The worker has since been identified as Joseph Hill of Minnesota. Mitchell County Sheriff Greg Beaver said deputies responded to the site, and provided medical attention. The deputies determined that... Category: Accidents & Safety

OSHA investigating construction worker's death at St. Ansgar wind farm Mitchell County Sheriff Greg Beaver said the fatal accident occurred about 1 p.m. Saturday while the worker was loading heavy equipment at Turtle Creek Wind Farm, which is under construction near St.... Category: Accidents & Safety

Iowa Construction Worker Dies at Turtle Creek Wind Farm An Iowa construction worker was killed in what authorities are calling an "industrial accident" in St. Ansgar, Iowa over the weekend. Category: Accidents & Safety

Evolve - Don’t Stagnate: Moving Cleveland's Icebreaker Project Forward Windustrious Cleveland's Sara Taylor calls for opponents of offshore wind in the Great Lakes to evolve, as others have done in past, to avoid technological stagnation.[more] Category: News on Large Wind

Wind: An Energy Alternative--Video Blast from the Past In 1980 the Department of Energy published a short film titled Wind: An Energy Alternative. The 12-minute film was produced by the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) probably in 1979.[more] Category: News on Large Wind, History of Wind Power, Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Is the wind turbine really a 'new apex predator'? The presence of wind turbines can reduce the number of birds and lizards in an area, a new study has found. Should we start tearing the farms down? Category: Wind Energy & the Environment

Rare New Photos Added: Chalk Bicycle Wheel Turbine & Princeton Sailwing Wind Turbine 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...[more] Category: Small Wind folder

Tasmania wind farm Australia’s first to use eagle protection technology New technology to detect and prevent eagles from colliding with rotating wind turbine blades will be applied in Australia for the first time – at Goldwind Australia’s Cattle Hill Wind Farm in the... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

New Page Added on VAWTPower at Clines Corner I've added a new page on photos of historical Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines to include VAWTPower Management's prototypes at Clines Corner, New Mexico.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

End of an Era in Small Wind--Home Power Magazine and Small Wind Conference Cease 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...[more] Category: Small Wind folder

US National Survey of Attitudes of Wind Power Project Neighbors The findings indicate an overall positive attitude toward the nearby turbines, including for those living even as close as ½ mile. Roughly 8% of the population had negative attitudes within 5 miles. Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

Southern Arizona wind farm investigated after death of bat, eagle In the mountains 20 miles west of Willcox, 15 wind turbines stand 450 feet tall, spinning with the wind. This is the Red Horse II Wind Farm, the only wind farm operating in southern Arizona. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Comments by Noted Geographer Martin Pasqualetti on Wind in Sicht: Landscape in Transition Ulrich Mertens has done us all a very big favor. With graphic clarity and a professional photographer’s keep eye for composition, Wind in Sicht – Landscape in Transition illustrates the newest...[more] Category: Reviews Coffee Table Books

Trump Again Overblows Risks of Wind Power In an Aug. 30 rally in Evansville, Indiana, President Donald Trump made three unsubstantiated claims about wind turbines, which he calls “windmills”. Category: News on Large Wind

Navy now considering plans for ocean wind farms — and Morro Bay is a top prospect Efforts to build fields of floating wind turbines off the coast of California are gaining momentum, and Morro Bay might be at the front of the line. Category: News on Large Wind

From Auto Engineer to Wind Turbine Manager Christopher Bruce lost his automotive job, sulked, then reinvented himself Category: News on Large Wind

Prescient Quote about Hometown Wind Energy from 1977! What struck my eye is the quote, "Indiana is a better location for the use of windpower than many eastern states, since most wind speeds are higher, the terrain flatter, and most of the trees cut...[more] Category: News on Large Wind Turbines, Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us

Comment for the OPSB Public Hearing on Cleveland's Icebreaker Offshore Wind Project The growing excitement for offshore wind development on the Great Lakes is great to see. William Friedman, of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, has announced that they have identified the...[more] Category: News on Large Wind

Fatal crawler crane overturn A crawler crane operator has died in an incident at a wind farm in Poweshiek County, Iowa over the weekend. Category: Accidents & Safety

Cancelled wind farm to cost Ontario ratepayers $100 million plus: Company The unexpected cancellation of a wind energy project by the new Ontario government will cost ratepayers more than $100 million according to the company spearheading the project. Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Fact vs. Fiction: Are Wind Turbines Making People Sick? So, the question is, do these assertions hold up under scientific scrutiny? The answer appears to be “no.” Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Can Doug Ford keep his promise to axe green energy projects? Many rural voters hope so Green Energy Act allowed province to ignore local concerns, but election gives opponents new optimism. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, Ontario FIT

Rhode Island General Assembly to Study Marine Impacts of Turbines The House of Representative is set to authorize a study to determine if offshore wind facilities are killing whales and other sea life. Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

VAWT Wind turbines are tourist ‘must-see’ A wind farm comprised of 432 vertical-axis wind turbines on the coast of Changhua County’s Fangyuan Township (芳苑) has become the county’s latest tourist attraction. The turbines look like egg... Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Ben & Jerry's joins the campaign to support onshore windfarms Tubs of Strawberry Breeze-cake, Cherry Gale-cia and other wind-themed ice-creams will feature in a campaign by Ben & Jerry’s to persuade the government to rethink its opposition to onshore windfarms. Category: News on Large Wind

Wind in Sicht: Landscape in Transition by Ulrich Mertens, A Review There are some books that simply bring a smile to your face--even to someone as jaded as I. This is one of them. There is a joy in discovering what the future may hold that comes across in Ulrich...[more] Category: News on Wind Energy, Reviews Coffee Table Books, Reviews of Wind Books auf Deutsch, Book Reviews of Books auf Deutsch, book Reviews

Regular safety training could prevent wind farm deaths, study claims Research published today by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) claims that wind farm technicians often struggle to recall key safety instructions. Category: Accidents & Safety

"Wind Energy for the Rest of Us" E-book Re-Launched at $19.99 The digital version of Paul Gipe's Wind Energy for the Rest of Us has been re-launched on several platforms at $19.99, 33% off the previous e-book price.[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

India adds 10 GW of fresh solar in FY 2017/18, reaches 22 GW total Wind, meanwhile, saw a drop in installation activity due to the transition from a feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme to auction mechanism, with less than 2 GW of new wind parks coming online, a year-on-year... Category: Indiana FIT, News on Solar Energy, News on Large Wind

US Wind Turbine Database On-Line Mapping Tool Launches The United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) has gone live according to a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) press release.[more] Category: News on Large Wind, News on Wind Energy

PG&E Distributed Wind Energy 06 Distributed Wind Presentation by Paul Gipe for PG&E 21 April 2018 at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California. Check against delivery. Category: News on Wind Energy, Presentations by Paul Gipe

PG&E Distributed Wind Energy 04 Silent Wind Revolution Presentation by Paul Gipe for PG&E 21 April 2018 at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California. Check against delivery. Category: News on Wind Energy, Presentations by Paul Gipe

PG&E Distributed Wind Energy 02 Configurations Presentation by Paul Gipe for PG&E 21 April 2018 at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California. Check against delivery. Category: News on Wind Energy, Presentations by Paul Gipe

PG&E Distributed Wind Energy 01 Introduction Presentation by Paul Gipe for PG&E 21 April 2018 at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California. Check against delivery. Category: Presentations by Paul Gipe, News on Wind Energy

PG&E Distributed Wind Energy 07 Conclusion Presentation by Paul Gipe for PG&E 21 April 2018 at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California. Check against delivery. Category: Presentations by Paul Gipe, News on Wind Energy

PG&E Distributed Wind Energy 03 Fundamentals Presentation by Paul Gipe for PG&E 21 April 2018 at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California. Check against delivery. Category: Presentations by Paul Gipe, News on Wind Energy

PG&E Distributed Wind Energy 05 Hyrbrid and Storage Introduction Presentation by Paul Gipe for PG&E 21 April 2018 at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California. Check against delivery. Category: Presentations by Paul Gipe, News on Wind Energy

Electricity Rebels and How They're Changing the Face of Renewable Energy Presentation for the CORE Energy Summit in Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 April 2018. Category: Presentations by Paul Gipe, News on Community Power

Presentation on Improvements to Small Wind Turbines Presentation for CORE Energy Summit in Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 April 2018. Category: Small Wind folder, Presentations by Paul Gipe

Diesels are Dead: Long Live EVs Presentation on Electric Vehicles for the CORE Energy Summit in Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 April 2018. Category: Electric Vehicles, Presentations by Paul Gipe

Bluenergy Giving Me the Blues What's up with Canada? I've gotten two enquiries from the Great White North about Bluenergy Solarwind, a US company claiming to have developed another vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT).[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Transfer of Distribution Rights for Gipe's Wind Energy for the Rest of Us Completed 4 April the transfer of remaining copies of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us to a new distributor was completed.[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind, Small Wind folder

Update: Wind turbine entrepreneur, wanted by the FBI, found hiding in Saskatoon Celebrities like former Tonight Show host Jay Leno and actor Ed Begley Jr. endorsed the Canadian entrepreneur's product. Rowan was making national headlines with his invention. But skeptics wondered... Category: Mag-Wind

Liquidation Of Gaia-Wind Stems From Government Inaction On Small-Scale Renewables 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... Category: Small Wind folder

The Call for Wind Energy Development on Lake Erie Led by Union Members Cleveland has been a city of innovation, right from the very beginning. In 1796 Moses Cleaveland, in his westward journey from Connecticut, discovered the area around the mouth of the Cuyahoga River,...[more] Category: News on Large Wind

Trade bodies slam Westminster for ‘inaction’ in saving Scottish renewables firm 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... Category: Small Wind folder

First wind farm operational in coal-reliant Bosnia Bosnia’s maiden wind farm began producing electricity on Wednesday as part of the country’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and meet the renewable energy standards of the European Union it... Category: News on Large Wind

Gaia Wind: Scottish wind-turbine maker collapses amid 'Westminster cuts' to renewables Gaia-Wind, which celebrated the roll-out of its 1000th device from Glasgow last April, has appointed a provisional liquidator. The company moved its operations to Scotland from Denmark seven years... Category: Small Wind folder

Sex Sells--Even Wind Energy: The Dalhart Mystery Sex sells. Always has, always will. Sex has been used to sell beer, cars, and even wind energy--well, at least articles about wind energy.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, History of Wind Power

Auctions didn’t make wind power cheaper, study finds Wind power prices have plummeted in recent years since Germany switched to auctions. Now, a study has found what readers of this blog already knew: the prices only look low because they are reported... Category: News on Large Wind

Family want answers over death in snow on wind farm The family of a security guard who died after becoming trapped in heavy snow on a remote wind farm are demanding answers about his death. Category: News on Large Wind

CGE Energy Touting Its Uncertified Darrieus Wind Turbine CGE Energy recently issued a press release applauding the US Congress for extending tax subsidies to small wind turbines. The press release also touts CGE's Darrieus wind turbine, the Wind-e 20.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Performance of Swiss Darrieus Wind Turbine Alpha Real Mirrors that in California of the 1980s The 1992 report on the project by the Centre de Recherche Energétiques et Municpales reads like so many of the others from the period. In short, the four-year project was a failure for a host of...[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, History of Wind Power

French Post Card and CENG's Darrieus Turbine Wind historian extraordinaire Etienne Rogier sent me a carte postale (post card) promoting a 1988 French postage stamp. The card depicts the postage stamp and an experimental Darrieus turbine.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, History of Wind Power

UGE: Wind turbine blades falling off Addison’s water tower result in $1 million flop, crazy lawsuit The turbines ran for three months before one blade fell to the ground 190 feet below. Then a second blade crashed through a nearby storage building's roof, falling into a conference room. No one was... Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Urban Green Energy (UGE)

Video of SheerWind-Invelox in Iran Daryoush Allaei extolling the wonders of his device in his native land. Note the location of the device--down below the ridge on which they are standing. Also notice that there are some real wind... Category: Sheerwind-Invelox

Exploring the prediction of wind turbine audibility and sound annoyance with A-weighted sound levels Additionally, the sound-level drivers (modeled wind turbine sound level and background sound level) are poor predictors of very annoyed responses; one’s prior support for or opposition to a local... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

LBNL: Comparing Strongly Annoyed Individuals Near Wind Power Projects In U.S. and Europe A similar mean level of annoyance to sound is found in European results. In the U.S. sample, the mean levels of annoyance to lighting, shadow flicker, and landscape change are similar but slightly... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

LBNL: Do Wind Turbines Make Good Neighbors? Results from a Nationwide Survey of Residents Living Near U.S. Wind Power Projects Attitudes were significantly correlated with compensation, sensory perceptions of the nearby turbines, planning process perceptions, and attitudes toward wind turbines in general. It was also found... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

LBNL: National Survey of Attitudes of Wind Power Project Neighbors In 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy funded Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to lead a 4-year project collecting data from a broad-based and representative sample of individuals... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

Chinese Company Sinovel Wind Group Convicted of Theft of Trade Secrets A manufacturer and exporter of wind turbines based in the People’s Republic of China was convicted today of stealing trade secrets from AMSC, a U.S.-based company formerly known as American... Category: News on Large Wind

‘Tougher H&S' call for UK wind The Unite union has called on the UK government and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to toughen the laws governing the construction and maintenance of wind farms, following the death of a worker at... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

'Stranded' worker dies at wind farm UK: A 74-year-old man has died at a wind farm in southeast Scotland after becoming stranded without heat or power. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Union Members Are Devoted to Ohio’s First Offshore Wind Project The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has been reviewing the application by Icebreaker Windpower Inc., regarding its proposal to install six turbines on Lake Erie, a few miles offshore from Cleveland.... Category: News on Large Wind

Albania Wind Power Market Report 2017 The feed-in tariff is currently applicable to electricity generated from plants gen¬erating electricity from renewable sources with an installed capacity not exceed¬ing 15 MW (“Preferential... Category: Albania FIT, News on Large Wind

Etienne Rogier on the Operation of France's Post War Wind Turbine "Neyrpic" French wind historien Etienne Rogier has published an article on French post war wind turbines in the latest issue of the house organ for the Fédération des Moulins de France.[more] Category: History of Wind Power, News on Large Wind

FaceBook Comments on SheerWind Ducted Disaster The following are comments to Another Ducted Device Dead: SheerWind-Invelox Bankrupt. They were so insightful I decided to repost them here where they are more easily archived.[more] Category: Sheerwind-Invelox

Another Ducted Device Dead: SheerWind-Invelox Bankrupt My inbox saw a flurry of emails 4 January 2018 to inform me that ducted turbine darling SheerWind-Invelox was bankrupt. While the event wasn't much of a surprise, it did take much longer than I'd...[more] Category: Sheerwind-Invelox

After 16 Years, Hopes for Cape Cod Wind Farm Float Away But after 16 years — and $100 million of his own money — that dream is, well, gone with the wind. Mr. Gordon has pulled the plug, stymied by endless litigation and a series of financial and political... Category: News on Large Wind

KunstlerCast 298 — Solar and Wind in Vermont with David Blittersdorf of All Earth Renewables "Grind up the SUVs and build wind turbines with them," says David Blittersdorf, founder of AllEarth Renewables. Podcast with more provocative thoughts on renewables, transit, and energy policy in... Category: Fossil Fuels, News on Large Wind, Renewable Energy

Trump administration eases rule against killing birds The Interior Department has quietly rolled back an Obama-era policy aimed at protecting migratory birds, stating in a solicitor’s opinion that it will no longer prosecute oil and gas, wind, and solar... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Wind turbines could provide many local advantages A big reason Dow chose wind energy in gas-rich Texas, is that wind power has a completely predictable fuel cost (zero), which budget planners like. They don't have to guess what their costs will be a... Category: News on Large Wind

Wind Energy Museum Norfolk Great Britain We feature full sized wind pumps, steam engines and a unique scoop wheel along with a collection of photographs, models of various mills which all depict the evolution of the drainage of the Broads. [more] Category: History of Wind Power

Abandoned DAF-Indal Darrieus Turbine on the Iles-de-la-Madeleine Someone sent me a link to a YouTube video titled Abandoned Vertical Axis Windmill In The Magdalen Islands.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, History of Wind Power

Rebuilt USW 56-100 in the Wild Renewable energy and electric vehicle fan Bob Tregilus was out and about in rural Nevada when he came across an odd wind turbine powering a well pump in the Reese River Valley. So he sent along his...[more] Category: News on Large Wind, History of Wind Power

Busting more myths about South Australia’s wind and solar Contrary to the ideas promulgated by some opponents of wind generation, most of the substantial investment in wind farms in South Australia is not being paid for by taxpayers or electricity consumers... Category: News on Large Wind, Grid Integration

It’s true, wind turbines are monstrous. But I have learned to love them At first I resented the way they blocked the view. But now the towers look like part of a brighter future. Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

State Opens Investigation Into Blasting At Deerfield Wind Site Permitting for the project dragged on for more than ten years and the 30-megawatt project is expected to go online in 2018. A contract worker died on the site in April after he was electrocuted. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

In Iowa Wind Opponents Turn to Animal Cruelty Science deniers needlessly killing animals, in order to needlessly kill more animals. Appalled but not surprised. People who don’t care about the massive extinctions brought on by climate change... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

Nashtifan Windmills The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting Located on the arid and windswept plains of northeastern Iran, 30 miles from the Afghan border, the small village of Nashtifan is keeping ancient traditions alive amid the winds of change. The town... Category: History of Wind Power

Firm fined $8K after death at Deerfield Wind site David Sprague, of Windham, Maine, was 59 years old when he was electrocuted at the Putnam Road construction site on April 18. Category: News on Large Wind

Why People Believe Low-Frequency Sound Is Dangerous Anxiety over “wind-turbine syndrome” stems from a decades-old misunderstanding of inaudible noise. (Jun 19, 2017) Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

You can’t buy this turbine, but you can buy its power Even though the blades appear curved, each is made of 11 sections with hinged connections. The rotor will be limited to about 80 rpm by using several aviation-style airbrakes in the center sections... Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Wild is the wind: the resource that could power the world At £57.50 per megawatt-hour (MWh), it is far cheaper than the state-backed price of £92.50 awarded in 2016 to Hinkley nuclear power station. The speed of wind’s progress is extreme and inarguable. Category: News on Large Wind

The Curse That Keeps on Giving: Honeywell WindTronics Redux I pay a price for debunking various wind turbine flim-flams and posting critiques on my web site. Consequently, I am cursed to be listed by Google and Indian call centers as the person to call if a...[more] Category: Windtronics

Adecon Darrieus Turbine Photos Posted In response to a query from a Swedish researcher, I’ve posted eight historic photos of the Adecon Darrieus wind turbine to my web site. See Adecon under Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) in the...[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Bürger-Windpark Lübke-Koog 25-Year Anniversary--A Review Hans-Detlef Feddersen sent me a copy of a little picture book celebrating the 25th anniversary of Bürger-Windpark Lübke-Koog. He included a DVD video of interviews with the founders of the...[more] Category: Book Reviews of Books auf Deutsch, Reviews of Wind Books auf Deutsch, Solar Electricity Rebels (Stromrebellen), History of Wind Power, book Reviews

Another Small VAWT with Big Ambitions Bankrupt: X-Wind Power Small Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) come and go so fast no one can keep track of them before they become history.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

No appeal on wind turbine after death threats The ruling would push back community wind projects by "at least a decade''. Category: News on Community Power, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

Gårdmøllerne or Danish Farm Windmills--A Review Benny Christensen knows his windmills. An early anti-nuclear activist and proponent of 100% renewable energy—a photo of him appears in Steven Borish’s Land of the Living—Christensen has now turned...[more] Category: book Reviews, History of Wind Power, News on Wind Energy

Störfall mit Charme—The Story of the Schönau Electricity Revolt--A Review The title, Störfall mit Charme, is a playful thumbing of the nose in German at the critics of a movement by citizens in a small village in the deepest reaches of Germany’s Schwarzwald or Black Forest...[more] Category: book Reviews, Book Reviews of Books auf Deutsch, Solar Electricity Rebels (Stromrebellen), Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy

Someone keeps shooting at a well-known Victorian wind farm One of Victoria’s best-known wind farms, Waubra, 35km north-west of Ballarat, has been shot at several times in recent years, police have revealed. Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Geothermal Power Generation: Developments and Innovation--a Review Geothermal energy is one of the dark horses of renewable energy. Few “renewable energy advocates” know much—if anything—about it. They don’t know what geothermal contributes today and have no clue...[more] Category: book Reviews, Book Reviews on Geothermal Energy, News on Geothermal

Floating offshore wind (part 2): Financing FOW Given that this is offshore wind, it stands to reason that lenders and investors will work from what they know (offshore wind using fixed-bottom foundations), and try to understand how different FOW... Category: News on Large Wind

Energy Transition, lessons from South Australia’s energy crisis At the heart of the problem has been governments’ trust in market solutions without a sharp eye on the shortfalls in market performance and without adequate leadership on the long term outcome the... Category: Grid Integration

World’s First Ever Offshore Wind Farm Finally Dismantled The world’s first ever offshore wind farm has finally been dismantled, with DONG Energy announcing this week that it had completed decommissioning the 4.95 megawatt Vindeby Offshore Wind Farm. Category: News on Large Wind

Mars counters Trump's climate stance with $1bn sustainability plan The Snickers, Twix, Milky Way and Skittles maker has also revealed plans to champion renewable energy through its M&M’s brand, featuring images of things such as wind turbines alongside its red and... Category: News on Large Wind

Comments by Bernard Saulnier on the Book Energy Democracy In response to my review of Energy Democracy, a new book on Germany’s energy revolution by Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann, long-time colleague Bernard Saulnier contacted me with his thoughts.[more] Category: book Reviews, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Power, News on Large Wind, Fossil Fuels

Poland’s Anti-Wind Campaign Uses Stale Nazi Argument Rightwing Poles have raised the old canard that wind turbines and, hence, wind energy, is the detestable spoor of Nazi racial ideology. Nothing could be further from the truth.[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews, News on Large Wind

AWEA’s Tom Gray--US Wind Pioneer—Dies Tom Gray, former executive director of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) died Wednesday.[more] Category: News on Large Wind

Copyright Finally Issued for Wind Energy for the Rest of Us The copyright was finally issued for Wind Energy for the Rest of Us. A long time coming, the copyright was issued under Title 17 of the United States Code and became effective 5 December 2016.[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

Energy Democracy, by Craig Morris & Arne Jungjohann: A Review Is one of the most powerful books on the renewable energy revolution in decades. It’s a chronicle of the remarkable transformation underway in the world’s fourth-largest industrial economy.[more] Category: book Reviews, News on Large Wind, News on Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Power, Fossil Fuels, Debunking Myths about Feed-in Tariffs, Germany FIT

Colorado City man electrocuted in wind farm accident Cody Hubbard, 29, was electrocuted and trapped at the top of a wind turbine at a farm on CR 183 Thursday. He was doing work for Ivenergy LLC when the accident occurred, injuring one other employee,... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

The modern wind sector – and the Energiewende – turns 30 today When was the Energiewende born? Lots of dates are tossed around, but one German press report argues that it all started today 30 years ago, when a test wind farm was connected to the grid. Category: News on Large Wind

VAWTs Relegated to the Backwaters of the Internet Where Anti-Vaxxers Roam I’d seen a reference to the technical paper, Optimization of a vertical axis wind turbine for application in an urban/suburban area, by two academics making the rounds but didn’t take much notice of...[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Rooftop & Urban Wind

Wind power hit record low price in German auctions. Few are happy Germany’s Network Agency has announced the results of the second round of onshore wind auctions. The new price is 4.29 cents/kWh, a quarter lower than the 5.71 cents from the first round. Category: News on Large Wind

The climate and air-quality benefits of wind and solar power in the United States We find cumulative wind and solar air-quality benefits of 2015 US$29.7–112.8 billion mostly from 3,000 to 12,700 avoided premature mortalities, and cumulative climate benefits of 2015 US$5.3–106.8... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, Wind Energy & the Environment

2016 Wind Technologies Market Report $13 billion was invested in new wind power plants in 2016. In 2016, wind energy contributed 5.6% of the nation’s electricity supply, more than 10% of total electricity generation in fourteen states,... Category: News on Large Wind

Baseload myths and why we need to change how we look at our grid It is a meaningless concept at the least and dangerous at its worst Category: Nuclear Power, Fossil Fuels, Grid Integration

Betz: Everything You Need to Know about Wind Turbines Was Written in 1927 Yes, I’ve written about this subject once before, Everything You Need to Know about Wind Energy Was Written in 1957!, but I am moving the date back thirty years in the light of more research. The...[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, History of Wind Power, Small Wind folder, News on Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

Darrieus and His Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) Largely forgotten today, Georges Jean Marie Darrieus was one of France’s great engineers. While he is mostly known in the English-speaking world for his patent on vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs),...[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, History of Wind Power

Siemens Wind Power to close Ontario turbine blade plant, cut 340 jobs A wind-turbine-blade factory in Southwestern Ontario that Siemens Wind Power Ltd.’s former parent company called “a key part of our global supply chain” just last September is winding down... Category: News on Large Wind

URI Researchers: Block Island Wind Farm “Highly Unlikely” To Have Caused Whale’s Death In response to the June 24, 2017 piece, “Block Island Wind Farm May Have Killed Young Humpback Whale,” several of us, researchers at the University of Rhode Island (URI), feel it is important to... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment

Photos of Dabiri VAWT Test Site—Wing Power Turbines are Down Oh the ways of the wind. It blows where it will--or something to that effect. We were on our way to pick cherries. That’s a fairly innocuous activity. From Bakersfield we had to cross the Antelope...[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

SheerWind Invelox Demo Turbine in Need of Demolition The Chaska, Minnesota promoter of a ducted wind turbine appears to have fallen on hard times. The fabric covering of the intake duct for their demonstration turbine is torn and in disrepair and the...[more] Category: Sheerwind-Invelox

Wind Day in Woodstock, Ontario York University’s International Renewable Energy Academy designated 29 June as the “wind day” on their week-long program. [more] Category: News on Large Wind, News on Community Power, Small Wind folder

Dueling Wind Ties in Woodstock The 29 June was the “wind day” for York University’s International Renewable Energy Academy. As the featured speaker to start the day I donned one of my favorite wind tie.[more] Category: Solar Electricity Rebels (Stromrebellen), News on Wind Energy

Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned? (1) North American support for wind has been consistently high. (2) The NIMBY explanation for resistance to wind development is invalid. (3) Socioeconomic impacts of wind development are strongly... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

China To Install 403 Gigawatts Of Wind Energy Over Next Decade, According To MAKE Consulting The Chinese Government is therefore set to publish at least 2 or 3 additional reductions to the onshore wind FiT level before 2023. Category: China FIT, News on Large Wind

Overview of Wind Energy for the International Renewable Energy Academy Presentation by Paul Gipe for York University's International Renewable Academy on 22 June 2017. Check against delivery. Category: Presentations by Paul Gipe, News on Large Wind, News on Wind Energy

The Ohio legislature should get rid of damaging wind setback In 2014, Senate Republicans tucked into an 822-page mid-biennium budget review (HB 483) a rider that more than doubled the distance a wind turbine must be from the adjacent property of anyone who... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they're made out to be—here's why "Wind farms and nuclear power stations are responsible each for between 0.3 and 0.4 fatalities per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity while fossil-fuelled power stations are responsible for about... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Wind Power: the True Story (Review of Paul Gipe's Wind Energy for the Rest of Us) They say that a good book should always tell a story. And this is true for this book by Paul Gipe. Titled "Wind Energy for the Rest of Us" is not just about the technology, but it tells the whole... Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

Wind’s Silent Revolution Grows in Germany with More High Specific Area Turbines While thumbing through German renewables magazine, Sonne Wind&Wärme, a table jumped out at me. The table confirmed that the Silent Wind Revolution that French renewables expert Bernard Chabot first...[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, News on Large Wind

World Wind Energy Award 2017 for German journalist Dr. Franz Alt Dr. Alt is a journalist who has been promoting the vision of a renewable energy world for more than two decades. As head and presenter of important political tv magazines, he became one of the most... Category: News on Large Wind

Professional-Grade Sound Level Meter for Sale I have a Casella CEL-464 professional-grade sound level meter for sale. I used the unit during the early 2000s to measure the noise emissions from small wind turbines.[more] Category: Small Turbine Testing, Wind Energy & the Environment

Finally a New Generation of VAWT Busters Has Arrived: Debunking IceWind The onslaught of super-dooper new windmill inventions is never ending. Frankly it’s wearing out us old timers. We can’t keep up with the damn things. We try to ignore them but our friends and...[more] Category: Rooftop & Urban Wind, Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Finding Inspiration in Nature for the Revolution We Need It is no wonder that a modern wind turbine looks so beautiful.[more] Category: History of Wind Power, Wind Energy & the Environment, News on Large Wind

Are solar and wind really killing coal, nuclear and grid reliability? So, are wind and solar killing coal and nuclear? Yes, but not by themselves and not for the reasons most people think. Are wind and solar killing grid reliability? No, not where the grid’s technology... Category: Renewable Energy, Grid Integration

What went wrong with that weird wind turbine on Deer Island? Ogin raised more than $150 million in funding — even attracting the attention of former Vice President Al Gore, now a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, one of the company’s earliest... Category: FloDesign-Ogin

Mag-Wind’s James Rowan Captured in Saskatoon after Four Years on the Lam Four years after a federal grand jury in Raleigh, North Carolina returned a two-count indictment against James Alan Rowan for his fraudulent wind turbine investments, the fugitive was caught in...[more] Category: Mag-Wind, Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

FloDesign’s State Subsidy Up in Smoke Among all those who lost money in the FloDesign-Ogin fiasco is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Compared to others the state lost a relatively modest amount of $3 million.[more] Category: FloDesign-Ogin

Assessing wind resources in our cities Urban environments are challenging locations for small wind turbines. Moreover, the sector must deal with cases of small turbines poorly sited and installed by companies that are more interested in... Category: Small Wind folder, Rooftop & Urban Wind

Noise, eigenfrequencies and turbulence behavior of a 200 kW H-rotor vertical axis wind turbine The work within this thesis is made in collaboration between Halmstad University and Uppsala University. A 200-kW semi-guy-wired VAWT H-rotor, owned by Uppsala University but situated in Falkenberg... Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Ontario man facing extradition to U.S. on fraud charges found at parents' home in Saskatoon James Alan Rowan was apprehended in Saskatoon, where his parents live. A Saskatoon judge committed him to be extradited to the U.S. to face two fraud charges filed against him amid allegations he... Category: Mag-Wind

What instances of attempted murder or significant violence have occurred against wind industry personnel? Recently a Dutch wind farm developer’s home was firebombed. Dutch Wind Developer Fire Bombed What other instances of violence against wind industry staff have occurred? Category: Accidents & Safety, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

NZ Super Fund writes down wind turbine investment; remains committed to investing in early stage companies In June 2016 the Ogin Board of Directors and management mutually agreed to separate. At that point we wrote the Fund’s NZ$47.5 million investment down to nil, and that was included in our annual... Category: FloDesign-Ogin

Dutch Wind Developer Fire Bombed Sometime around midnight 10-11 April the home of Bob Jans was firebombed in Assen, the Netherlands. Both Jans and his wife were home, asleep at the time.[more] Category: News on Large Wind, Accidents & Safety, Electric Vehicles, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

The Crazy Lifestyle of a Woman Who Repairs Wind Turbine Blades When she's not climbing in Patagonia, Jessica Kilroy hangs off wind turbines Category: Job Effects from Renewable Energy, News on Large Wind

New ‘Excel 15’ small-wind turbine generates more energy at a lower LCOE Bergey Windpower, an American manufacturer of small wind turbines for residential and commercial applications, recently announced a new product, the Excel 15 wind turbine. Category: News on Small Wind

Hohe Akzeptanz für Windenergie dank Bürgerbeteiligung "Als die Gemeindevertreter der drei Gemeinden mit diesem Konzept auf die Bürger zugingen, war das Vorhaben schnell akzeptiert“, erinnert sich Schäfer. Category: News on Large Wind, News on Community Power

Police probe Whitelee fatality Investigators are looking into the possibility that the man may have taken his own life, it is understood. Category: Accidents & Safety, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Kilgallioch wind farm accident death worker identified Police have identified a worker who died in an accident on a wind farm site in the south of Scotland. Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, Accidents & Safety

Sub-Surface Pumped Hydroelectric Storage Another interesting concept being considered is to locate one or both reservoirs below ground (sub-surface). Category: Renewable Energy, Grid Integration

Another Proposed Mine Conversion to Pumped Storage: Marmora A proposal by Northland Power for a project in Ontario, Canada. Category: Renewable Energy, Grid Integration

Germany Is Converting a Coal Mine Into a Massive Renewable Energy Battery Gemany is turning one of its old coal mines into a giant 'battery station' that will store hydroelectric power and provide energy to around 400,000 homes, with hopes of launching similar facilities... Category: Renewable Energy, Grid Integration

Don’t let wind energy stall in California As wind energy achieves a historic milestone – surpassing the total capacity of hydropower dams to become the nation’s largest renewable energy resource – many of California’s pioneer wind projects... Category: News on Large Wind

52 percent of Tory Voters in favour of Wind Farms A poll published in the Sunday Times shows more than half of Conservative voters think the government should do more to encourage onshore wind power. 52% of those surveyed said the building of wind... Category: News on Large Wind

Small Wind Conference Chooses Gipe for Keynote Speaker The Small Wind Conference has chosen Paul Gipe as its keynote speaker for its 2017 conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Calling Gipe “legendary” for his four decades writing about wind energy, the...[more] Category: book Reviews, Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, Small Wind folder

Local planning, sharing benefits key to wind-farm buy-in, study finds Nova Scotia policy on wind farms makes them 3 times more popular than in Ontario, study says. Category: News on Large Wind, News on Community Power

Windtech International: Review of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us The book is a combination between a historical book, a textbook and a do-it-yourself book if you want to install your own wind turbine or want to invest in wind energy. It describes the different... Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

Wind Energy Development in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada A stark, but somewhat expected finding is the high degree of support for wind energy in Nova Scotia compared to Ontario. Local support of their own nearby turbine development was three times higher... Category: News on Community Power, News on Large Wind

Japan accelerates wind power development as govt support pays off: study With a month to go this fiscal year, Japan's installation of new wind power capacity in 2016-17 is set to come in almost double that of the previous 12 months, propelled by higher tariffs guaranteed... Category: News on Large Wind, Japan FIT

Higher Penetration of Wind Energy in Ontario than in California The Canadian province of Ontario generated a higher percentage of its electricity with wind energy than California in 2015. [more] Category: News on Large Wind, News on Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

SheerWind-Invelox--Is the End Nigh for Another Ducted Turbine? Is the end near for SheerWind’s Invelox ducted wind turbine? The problems with SheerWind’s design are coming to a head as its signature clients lose faith.[more] Category: Sheerwind-Invelox, Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Mid-Size Turbines a Have Big Advantage in Output Relative to Visual Impact No, that’s not mere click bait. That’s the argument Geoff Henderson makes in a provocative paper on wind turbine size and the landscape impact of wind turbines.[more] Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

32nd Windmill-Wildflower Hike Planned for Tehachapi 20 May 2017 The Kern-Kaweah Chapter of the Sierra Club will lead a hike among the wind turbines on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) at 9:00 am on Saturday May 20, 2017 near Tehachapi, California. [more] Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

Kudos for Gipe’s Wind Energy from the Poul la Cour Foundation The current newsletter of the Poul la Cour Foundation offers kudos for the new book by Paul Gipe, Wind Energy for the Rest of Us. [more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

Donald Trump Investing Big in Wind Energy? Last week, we got a peek at Trump’s infrastructure plan, which included infrastructure projects that he considers a priority. Three of those are wind-related projects. Category: News on Large Wind, Renewable Energy

The Book for Wind Geeks: Wind Energy for the Rest of Us Digital Edition The digital version of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us is now available for download. This is the version of the book for true wind geeks as it offers photographic detail not seen any other way.[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

Pembina: A whirlwind tour of wind energy myths It seems to happen with every new technology. It wasn’t so long ago that some people were convinced a photograph could steal your soul. We may read about that now and have a little chuckle, but are... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety, News on Large Wind

Clarkson Attempts Ducted Turbines—Again Despite its previous association with a questionable wind turbine and its promoter, Clarkson University announced that the school in upstate New York has transferred ducted wind turbine technology...[more] Category: Shrouded & Ducted Wind Turbines, Windtamer

WindTronics Took Millions from Ontario Then Unconvincingly Blames the Province “The province gave the company $2.7 million to open in Windsor — under one condition. The company promised there would be 200 workers in the plant by the end of this year. That is now very unlikely,”...[more] Category: Windtronics

'Essentially against the law' to develop wind energy in N.L., says researcher "It is prohibited for any private actor, any renewable energy company to come into Newfoundland to build a renewable energy source or to sell or transmit it on the grid. It's essentially against the... Category: News on Large Wind

Bare Breasts and Windmills—Oh, My! Fans of my work with wind energy have often joked that my books would have a larger audience if they had some sex in them--or at least a bare breast.[more] Category: book Reviews, Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us

Germany's Energy Transition A Comparative Perspective This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The... Category: Renewable Energy, book Reviews

'Mad Alex': Donald Trump letters abuse Scottish ex-first minister Messages sent before his White House campaign show US president-elect harassing Alex Salmond over windfarms Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the Environment

French wind power costs EUR 76 per MWh - study Levelised cost of electricity from wind farms in France stands at EUR 76 per MWh, says a joint study of Pöyry Managing Consultants and French wind industry body France Energie Eolienne published... Category: France FIT, News on Large Wind

Man dies in suspected landslide at wind farm in Co Sligo Ireland Patrick McCaffrey (37) from Rossinver, Co Leitrm died on Monday evening after a landslide on a mountain bog on the Sligo-Roscommon border where groundworks for turbines were being carried out. Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Endurance Wind Power bankruptcy spreads to UK Endurance Wind Power filed for bankruptcy sometime around early November and placed under trust with Grant Thonrton, after its bank called in its loan. Category: Small Wind folder

Gipe’s New Wind Book Making the Rounds Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, Paul Gipe’s new book on wind energy is finally hitting the streets. Complimentary copies of the 560-page tome are reaching the first group of colleagues and reviewers...[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

Energy Democracy: Germany's Energiewende to Renewables Energy Democracy traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from protests against the industrialization of rural communities in the 1970s to the Power Rebels of Schönau and German... Category: book Reviews

UGE's VAWT wind turbines generating regret; $100,000 turbines to create $1.50 in electricity monthly The $107,516 spires stand immobile more than two months after they were erected and more than a year after the city council approved them. Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Swedish IPO to support vertical axis floating wind tech SeaTwirl has already installed a 30-kW prototype floating offshore wind turbine at Lysekil and it wants to build a full-scale machine, SeaTwirl S2, by 2020. Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Fight the 'blight' of windfarms near my golf courses, Trump urges Ukip leader US president-elect does not deny pushing interim leader Nigel Farage and key associates to fight development of windfarms in Scotland Category: Wind Energy & the Environment

Gipe Named to Prestigious Energy Watch Group Paul Gipe has been named to the Energy Watch Group, one of only two North Americans on the prestigious panel. He joins Stanford academic Mark Jacobson, internationally known for his work on moving to...[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, Renewable Energy, News on Wind Energy

FloDesign Ogin Ducted Wind Turbine at Deer Island Coming Down FloDesign’s prototype ducted wind turbine on Deer Island in Boston Harbor is being removed, according the agency that operates the nearby sewage treatment plant.[more] Category: FloDesign-Ogin, Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

We Have a Ship Date--Wind Energy for the Rest of Us Ok, we did have a previous ship date. Printed copies of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us were to arrive in the warehouse at the end of October. Obviously, that didn’t happen--and for good reason. I...[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews, Books by Paul Gipe

Study finds wind turbines killing migratory birds “Purdue is involved in trying to look at the genetics of these birds to figure out whether they are local birds that were born and hatched near the Altamont site, or whether they are birds from other... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment

Onshore windfarms more popular than thought, UK poll finds Some 73% of the British public polled by ComRes support onshore windfarms in contrast with government decisions to block them Category: News on Large Wind, Community Power and Wind Energy & the Environment en Francais

75th Anniversary of Connecting the Smith-Putnam Wind Turbine to the Grid On this date in 1941, the first commercial-scale wind turbine was connected to the electrical grid in the United States. It was a milestone in the development of wind energy. The giant Smith-Putnam...[more] Category: History of Wind Power

Indiana wind turbines slow to protect bats during migration Wind energy companies in Indiana are attempting to mitigate the deaths of bats during migration season by slowing or stopping their turbines at night. Category: Community Power and Wind Energy & the Environment en Francais, News on Large Wind

In Scotland, gusts of wind usher in a quiet energy revolution But amid the gale-force havoc, the day also brought a critical milestone in a quiet energy revolution: For the first time ever, the army of spinning white turbines that has sprouted across the lush... Category: News on Large Wind, Community Power and Wind Energy & the Environment en Francais

Rooftop and Building Integrated Wind Turbines are a Failure Says NREL The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) concludes in a new report that rooftop-mounted and building-integrated wind turbines are a failure, though readers would be hard pressed to find that...[more] Category: Rooftop & Urban Wind, Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines, Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Urban Green Energy (UGE)

Cleanfield Energy: Another Story of VAWT Hubris & Hustle Cleanfield made a big media splash in Ontario, Canada during the mid-2000s with its claim of producing a new wind turbine suited for mounting on buildings. [more] Category: Cleanfield, Rooftop & Urban Wind

Google applies for wind-assisted propulsion patent using Makani kite Makani Airborne Wind Energy Turbine (AWT) hasn't been in the news lately. They arrived in a flurry of press in 2013 as the next big thing from Google. The device is a powered kite tethered to the...[more] Category: Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Cleanfield Cited by Ontario Centres of Excellence as a “Success” Story There’s no better example of ignorance, hype, and hubris by people with more money at their disposal than their knowledge of energy when the government of Ontario funded Cleanfield Energy, a small...[more] Category: Cleanfield

Wind Opus A Step Closer to Completion: Contract for Printing Who knew that printing a book would be so complicated? Yes, writing, designing, and editing a book are difficult. That’s expected. But picking out paper weights?[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

A giant egg beater at ILCC’s farm? Vertical axis wind turbine design to be tested soon Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Windspire Energy Has Reintroduced the Windspire Concept Though the Mariah Windspire Company is defunct, the design has been taken up by another company. Doing business as Windspire Energy, the new company backed by Wisconsin's Ark Alloy LLC has revisited...[more] Category: Mariah Windspire

Total Capacity of Wind Power Plants Exceeds 3GW in Japan According to NEDO, about 0.18GW of wind power plants (86 plants) were newly installed in Japan in fiscal 2015. As of the end of the fiscal year, there were 2,102 wind power plants (total capacity:... Category: News on Large Wind

Remember that “wind tree”? It’s worse than we thought Turns out, the wind tree is actually worse than initially thought. Category: Small Wind folder, Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Ogin Ducted Turbine Employees Speak Out Former employees of the erstwhile ducted turbine manufacturer Ogin have posted comments about their jobs on a public web site.[more] Category: FloDesign-Ogin, Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Close-up Photos of Ogin DAWT Dismantlement in San Gorgonio Pass More photos of the Ogin ducted wind turbine dismantlement have been “thrown over my transom.” These close-up photos show far more detail of the disassembly and scrapping process than before.[more] Category: FloDesign-Ogin, Inventions & Questionable Wind Turbines

Wind Tourist Pic of Ropatec VAWT in Southern Sicily French aerodynamicist Stéphan Aubin sent in a photo of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) near the port of Siacca while he was vacationing in southern Italy.[more] Category: Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

New Pics of Old USW 56-100 Wind Turbines Photographer Bob Tregilus sent along a couple of pictures of some recycled US Windpower turbines in Nevada.[more] Category: News on Large Wind

Windfarms do not discourage tourists, economists find Study concludes there is no ‘detrimental effect’ on the number of holidaymakers in places with wind turbines Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Exponential Growth and the Renewable Surprise Critics of renewable energy have a full quiver of objections of why we shouldn’t bother developing wind and solar energy. One of my favorites is when they say, “Well renewables are nice, but they...[more] Category: Renewable Energy, News on Large Wind, News on Solar Energy, News on Geothermal

Library of Congress Number Assigned to Wind Energy for the Rest of Us The Library of Congress has assigned the Control Number 2016912305 for the title. The process isn’t complete until a printed copy of the book is received by the Library of Congress. We don’t expect...[more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

Why wind power opponents failed in Brandenburg A campaign calling for two kilometers between a turbine and the nearest built environment for new wind farms has failed. State politicians are nonetheless looking for ways to increase acceptance. Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Study projects economic impact of wind farms in Illinois The state's 25 largest wind farms generate $30.4 million in annual property taxes and $13.86 million in extra income each year for landowners who lease their land to wind farm developers, according... Category: News on Large Wind

A Step Backwards for Wind in Poland The act against wind turbines imposes a number of restrictions on producers of wind energy (except for micro installations and offshore wind farms). Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Small & Distributed Wind Capacity in Britain & USA Britain, with one-fifth the population of the USA, installed 560 MW of wind generating capacity in distributed applications from 2010 through 2015. This represents more than three times the MW per...[more] Category: News on Small Wind

Authorities release ID of man who died in wind turbine construction project Authorities say a 31-year-old from Manly died Thursday in a construction accident at a wind turbine in central Iowa. Christopher Thompson of Manly was working inside a wind turbine under construction... Category: Wind Noise, Health, & Safety

Small Wind Tariffs in Denmark 2016 After a long delay, Denmark is poised to reintroduce a new Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program for small wind turbines. The previous program had been suspended when it reached its cap. The new program cuts...[more] Category: Feed-in Tariffs for Small Wind

Contract approved for Montana wind farm project for $0.045/kWh Commissioners decided that Greycliff can arrange a contract of up to 25 years at a price of $45.49 per megawatt hour. That price is less than consumers are paying NorthWestern for power from the... Category: News on Large Wind

German researchers study bird deaths in wind farms Unsurprisingly, raptors were found to be the most vulnerable. The bird everyone in Germany is talking about in the context of wind turbines – the red kite – was not found in the study to an extent... Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, Debunking Myths about Wind Energy

Dutch tender award for offshore wind plant is 25% cheaper than Hinkley C contract The Dutch Government has awarded a contract to build two 350 MW Borssele offshore windfarms for 87 euros per MWh (£74 per MWh), some 25 per cent cheaper than the current value of the contract for... Category: Nuclear Power, News on Large Wind

Georgia Power Small Wind Demo Raises Questions Later this year Georgia Power Company, a part of the Southern Company, is installing three small wind turbines as a demonstration. Is this newsworthy? Is it significant in any way?[more] Category: Small Wind folder

Fleet-Wide Typical Wind Energy Yields in California and the USA What summary data tells us is that California wind farms generated 13.7 TWh from 6,200 MW of installed capacity in 2014. This results in a fleet-wide yield of 2,200 kWh/kW/yr. This is an important...[more] Category: News on Large Wind

Fluttering Flags, Can-can, & the Big Men of Wind Energy No. That title isn’t click bate. Long ago, in a land far away, I had to give a speech on the future of wind energy. That’s not noteworthy; I do it all the time. What was noteworthy, though, was that...[more] Category: News on Large Wind, History of Wind Power

US study finds properties near wind farm enjoy huge increase in value Newly released assessments of nearly 1000 properties in the southern part of El Paso, located near a wind farm southeast of Calhan, found no decrease in property values since the wind farm’s... Category: Debunking Myths about Wind Energy

Windtamer Ducted Wind Turbine Finally and Officially Kaput It went by various incarnations, but it was founded as Windtamer by one Gerald Brock and it finally and officially is gone.[more] Category: Windtamer

Proofread Book Returned to Designer for Final Changes The proofreader dropped the marked up manuscript in my lap the Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend—all 550 pages of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us. [more] Category: Book Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, book Reviews

The Brock Environmental Center: A Pinnacle of Sustainability—and Resilience This is the way to do small wind right. "When Hurricane Joaquin affected the East Coast the first week of October 2015, the two wind turbines, which were selected for their ability to withstand... Category: Rooftop & Urban Wind

Bird Society Leads by Example: Operates Large Wind Turbine at Headquarters In early 2016 the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) installed a large wind turbine at their headquarters in central England. The 100-meter (330-foot) tall turbine was installed at the...[more] Category: Wind Energy & the Environment, Debunking Myths about Wind Energy, News on Large Wind

Royal Society for Protection of Birds to Install 800 kW Wind Turbine Work begins in Sandy, Bedfordshire on 25 January, and the 100-metre tall Enercon E-53 800kW turbine will generate around 2m units of green energy every year, equivalent to over half of the... Category: News on Large Wind, Wind Energy & the En