Resource Library Category: Emissions
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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Balancing Fluctuating Wind Energy with Fossil-Fuel Power Stations
Author: Leonhard, W.; and Müller, K.
‘The simulation results show that even at this low penetration of wind energy, the infeed causes a hidden increase of the specific fuel consumption in remote fossil generating stations; in other words, they are now producing less electrical energy but with a higher fuel consumption and CO2- emissions per kWh. Substantial power reserves are necessary to guard against uncertainties of the wind power forecast and possible protective shut-downs of windfarms, which further strengthens the tendency towards a less efficient part-load-operation . . .
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Evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee inquiry into ‘The Economics of Renewable Energy’
Author: Bratby, Philip
10 My evidence is mainly concerned with wind power stations for generating electricity. This is because these form the major component of all major country’s future renewable energy policies. …
11 The most important consideration for the future electricity supply has to be security of that supply. …
12 Security of supply implies firm generation capacity with a margin above the peak (winter) demand. The firm generation is supplied by baseload power stations (such as nuclear) and despatchable (controlled by the grid) power (such as coal, gas . . .
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Industrial Wind Power in the Mountains of Virginia
Author: Virginia Wind
Overstated Benefits and Understated Costs
The attached brochure is provided as a counterpoint to the Virginia State Wind Symposium at James Madison University on June 18th and 19th [2008].
This symposium is sponsored by the Virginia Wind Energy Collaborative (VWEC), a state and federally funded organization that purports to promote balanced development of wind generated electricity in Virginia. The symposium, however, is remarkably unbalanced.
Although concerns have been widely raised about the overstated benefits and understated costs of industrial-scale wind development on our . . .
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Wind Power Siting Issues — Overview
Author: Hewson, Tom
Presented at: National Association of Attorney Generals, Wind Energy Facility Siting Issue Panel, Manchester, NH, April 21, 2008
Extracted text:
Wind Project Siting Issues
• Need high quality wind resources
• Large footprint, small power output
• Wind power — Green but high cost alternative
• Tall Structures — Highly Visible
• Impact on local property values
• No air/water emissions but may pose other environmental health & safety challenges
• Wind generation environmental/economic benefits
Wind Project Development Issues
• Large footprint, small power output
– Industry rule of thumb has . . .
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How DOE + AWEA = DOA
Author: Droz, John
Comments on the U.S. Department of Energy’s “20% Wind Energy by 2030” Report (May 2008)
‘Reading the sections about projected CO2 emission savings, the report appears to be a rehashing of prior work, with little (if any) new information or data provided. It is further diminished by technical errors, conflicting information, and a frequent lack of citations to independent sources supporting the aggressive recommendations, etc. This is likely due to the fact that the only non-governmental partners in this project are . . .
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Some Facts About Energy & Wind Power
Author: Friends of Eden, Lakeland and Lunesdale Scenery
A concise outline of myths and facts about industrial wind energy, including: general facts, the environment, health, energy savings, efficiency, government policy, and economic issues.
Download “Some Facts About Energy & Wind Power”
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Northwest Oklahoma — Last Great Place To Ruin
Author: Selman, Sue
Rotary Club Speech, November, 2007, by Sue Selman, President, Save the Prairie, Woodward, Oklahoma, savetheprairie@hotmail.com
Will Rogers once said, “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” That is what I feel will happen to all of us if we don’t pay attention to what is going to happen here with the wind industry.
I want to thank you for inviting me here today. This tells me you are interested in being . . .
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Industrial wind: a failure written in the European statistics
Author: Fédération Environnement Durable
[from "Eolien industriel: un échec en filigrane dans les statistiques Européennes"]
Does large-scale development of industrial wind energy actually reduce the consumption of fossil fuels or emission of CO2?
Comparison of per-capita wind and thermal electricity production and CO2 emissions in Germany, Denmark, Spain, and France.
Germany — most industrial wind facilities in the world (18,400 MW in 2005) –
2005: 10.6 tonnes CO2 per capita, 6.4 tonnes from electricity
+190% per capita production from wind from 2000 to 2005
+9% per capita thermal electricity production from . . .
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Calculating the Real Cost of Industrial Wind Power
Author: Stelling, Keith
An information update for Ontario Electricity Consumers from the Friends of Arran Lake Wind Action Group, Bruce County, Ontario, Compiled by Keith Stelling, November 2007.
Introduction
The history of human technological innovation is littered with projects that have had to be abandoned because they were based on a narrow theoretical view that failed to take into account the whole picture. The commercial exploitation of wind energy is fast showing signs of such failure.
The last ten years in Europe has provided ample opportunity . . .
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Prefiled Testimony Opposing East Haven Windfarm
Author: Hewson, Tom
“Q. Will one megawatt hour from a wind turbine displace one megawatt hour from a conventional fossil power plant?
“A. Highly unlikely. …
“Since wind supplies only intermittent power, its power purchasers have been unable to credit any of the wind project’s rated capacity towards their minimum reserve capacity requirements needed to assure a reliable power supply. As a result, wind purchases did not avoid or delay the buyers need to build or purchase new power capacity to meet their growing load requirements. . . .
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