Wind farms Wind farms Bryan Roberts, a professor of engineering at the University of Technology, in Sydney, Australia, has proposed a helicopter-like craft which flies to 15,000 feet altitude and stays there, held aloft by wings that generate lift from the wind, and held in place by a cable to a ground anchor. The Sky WindPower company in San Diego, California is attempting to commercialize this idea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Airborne wind turbine"
The Cape Wind Project is a planned wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. If completed as scheduled, it will be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cape Wind"
Codrington Wind Farm is a wind farm on the coast of south-western Victoria, Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Codrington Wind Farm"
Erie Shores Wind Farm is a large wind farm near Port Burwell, Ontario. It stretches approximately 8km to the west of the town, and 16km to the southwest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Erie Shores Wind Farm"
Huron Wind is the first commercial wind farm in Ontario. It is located near Tiverton, Ontario, and consists of 5 wind turbines. It is within sight of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station. Groundbreaking was on July 11 2002 and it was declared officially in service on December 1 2002. ...more on Wikipedia about "Huron Wind"
The Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the first coastal wind farm in the United States and the first wind farm in New Jersey. It became operational in December 2005 and consists of five 1.5 MW turbines built by General Electric. Each wind turbine reaches a height of 397 feet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm"
Kingsbridge Wind Farm is a large wind farm near Goderich, Ontario. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kingsbridge Wind Farm"
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This is a list of wind farms in Canada. All wind farms have been categorized by Canadian province or territory. All output values have been rounded to the nearest tenth of a megawatt (MW). ...more on Wikipedia about "List of wind farms in Canada"
Portland Wind Project is one of Australia's largest wind farms. Located on the coast of south-western Victoria, it consists of four sites: ...more on Wikipedia about "Portland Wind Project"
The Stateline Wind Project is a wind farm straddling the border between Oregon and Washington. It began operation in 2001, and as of 2005 is the largest wind project in the Northwest of the USA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stateline Wind Project"
Te Apiti is a wind farm owned and operated by Meridian Energy Limited. It is located on 11.5 km² of land north of the Manawatu Gorge in the North Island of New Zealand. It is currently (as of May 2005) New Zealand's largest capacity wind farm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Te Apiti wind farm"
Wattle Point Wind Farm is a wind farm near Edithburgh on the coast of South Australia, which has been operating since April 2005. When it was officially opened in June of that year it was Australia's largest wind farm at 91 megawatts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wattle Point Wind Farm"
A wind farm is a collection of wind turbines all in the same location and used for the generation of electricity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wind farm"
Wind power is the kinetic energy of wind, or the extraction of this energy by wind turbines. In 2004, wind power became the least expensive form of new power generation, dipping below the cost per kilowatt-hour of coal-fired plants ** . Wind power is growing faster than any other form of electrical generation, at about 37% ** , up from 25% growth in 2002. In the late-1990s, the cost of wind power was about five times what it is in 2005, and that downward trend is expected to continue as larger multi-megawatt turbines are mass-produced. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Wind power"
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