Medium-size and Large Wind Turbines

• General
• Wind Statistics
• Accidents & Safety
• Reviews

General

• Fantasy Wind Turbines (Read this first.)
• One Million Megawatts of Wind Capacity for the USA: A Target Worthy of a Great Nation
• Gipe Urges Change in AWEA
(Because of the relevance of this topic, I've moved this decade-old post up the list.)
• Why wind needs feed-in tariffs by Jérôme Guillet
• Great Lakes Offshore Wind: Greenpeace interview with Paul Gipe (mp4)
• Cleveland's Urban Wind Turbine
• Solar Without Limits: Breaking Free from Net Metering
• Worldwide Wind Energy Development 2007
• American Energy Independence through Cooperative Investment in Wind Energy by Mike Kendall
• Wind Penetration Update Denmark 2007
• Midwest Wind Integration Study
• Wind Penetration Update 2006
• Generator Ratings & Capacity Factors: Why You Should Avoid Them
• Landowner's Guide to Wind Energy
• Wind Power (2004) Available Soon in French
• Grid Integration of Wind Energy
• IEC Wind Turbine Classes
• Smart Generation: Powering Ontario With Renewable Energy by the David Suzuki Foundation
• Sobering Altamont Bird Report Issued
• Wind Energy Contracts, Land Leases, & Royalties for Landowners
• The Cost of the Iraq War and the Lost Opportunities for Development of Renewable Energy (Updated to January 18, 2007)
• European Wind Experience to 2001
• Return of Two Blades? A new look at an old idea
• Roof-Top Mounting of Wind Turbines
• More Wind than First Thought? USA report stirs minor tempest
• Why I Oppose the Production Tax Credit
• Chicago Offshore Wind Negates Crackpot Invention
• Comments on the Vortec Diffuser Augmented Turbine
• Windpower 98 Tehachapi Tour
• Self-Guided Tour to the Wind Farms of the Tehachapi Pass
• Midwest Wind Farm Trip Report and Observations

• Landowner's Guide to Wind Energy In the Upper Midwest
• The Great Wind Rush of 99
• California or Bust: the Wind Energy Rush of 99?
• Remarks by Paul Gipe at the Dedication of EDON's Wind Plant at Eemshaven
• AWT 26 Generates Noise Complaint
• Let's Put Wind Energy on the California Map
• Kenetech Windpower (U.S. Windpower) citations in Wind Energy Comes of Age
• Repowering California Wind Power Plants

Wind Statistics

• Brief Summary of World Wind Energy Stats
• Costs of Operation & Maintenance Summary
• Selected Wind Turbine Yields (Performance)
• German Project Size Decreases in 2005
• Status of Wind Energy in the USA in 2005
• California Updates Wind Stats--Finally
• Pitch Versus Stall: The Numbers are In
• International Wind Energy Development: World Market Update 2001
• Wind Expansion Slowed in 2002 says BTM Report
• Windenergie Report Deutschland 2002
• California Projects Show Steady Improvements
• Performance Data on Zond Z40a & Zond Z40b
• Zond Claims Questioned on Z16 at Waverly Light and Power (1998)
• Latest Data from Germany's 250 MW Measurement Program 1999
• Tehachapi Pass Wind Resource Update 2003
• Midwest Performance Projections: Are they too Aggressive?
• Wind Turbine Tower Trends
• Detecting Variable Speed Performance Improvements
• Overview of Worldwide Wind Generation

Accidents & Safety

• A Summary of Fatal Accidents in Wind Energy
• Thoughts on Doing It Yourself
• Tower Work and Do-it-Yourselfers
• Vanessa Skarski's Account of Her Father's Death on a Small Wind Turbine
• Steen Aagaard's Crippling Fall
• The Death of Terry Mehrkam
• Contemporary (2006) Mortality (Death) Rates in Wind Energy
• Man Falls to Death from E66 in Germany

Reviews

• Feed-in Tariffs by Miguel Mendonca--a Review
• Energy Switch: Proven Solutions for a Renewable Future
• Citizen Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
• Switching to Renewable Power by Volkmar Lauber
• Éoliennes par Philippe Olliver--a Review
• Renewable Energy Resources by John Twidell & Tony Weir
• Wind Energy: Technology and Planning CD-ROM by the WWEA
• Krieg um Öl by Franz Alt--a Review
• Vingesus--Whisper of Wings a Review
• Developing Wind Power Projects: Theory and Practice by Tore Wizelius
• Wind Power in Power Systems by Thomas Ackermann

• Wind Power Plants by R. Gasch, and J. Twele

• Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application
• Wind Energy Handbook by T. Burton, D. Sharpe, N. Jenkins, and E. Bossanyi

• Winds of Change: A comparative study of the politics of wind energy innovation in California and Denmark
• Wind Turbine Design with an Emphasis on the Darrieus Concept
• Cost-effective Design & Operation of Variable Speed Wind Turbines
• Reaping the Wind: How Mechanical Wizards, Visionaries, and Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future by Peter Asmus
• Die Geschichte der Windenergienutzung 1890-1990 (The History of Wind Energy Utilization 1890-1990) by Matthias Heymann

• Windiger Protest
• Wind Energy in America: A History by Robert Righter

• Land of the Living: A book on Denmark and the Danes:
• Wind Turbine Market Overview (Windkraftanlagen 1996 Marktübersicht)
• Proceedings of The European Wind Energy Association Special Topic Conference on the Economics of Wind Energy
• Windkraftanlagen (Wind Turbines) Enters Third Printing
• Der Spiegel Tackles Wind

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