A 21st century windfarm in the California Central Valley

A wind farm in Spain.

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used for production of electric power. Individual turbines are interconnected with a medium voltage (usually 34.5 kV) power collection system and communications network. At a substation, this medium-voltage electrical current is increased in voltage with a transformer for connection to the high voltage transmission system. A large wind farm may consist of a few dozen to about 100 individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles (square kilometers), but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other purposes. A wind farm may be located off-shore to take advantage of strong winds blowing over the surface of an ocean or lake.

A proposed solution for wind energy and other intermittent power sources is to create a supergrid of interconnected wind farms^[1] across western Europe. This large-scale array of dispersed wind farms^[2] would be located in different wind regimes.

Capacity by country

Wind power capacity installed and under construction by country

For more information see the following links:

• History of Wind Power


• Wind Farm Location Planning


• Wind Farm Types


• Wind Power in the European Union


• Wind Power in the United States


• Wind Turbine Manufacturers

References

External links

• Wind Over Water — a documentary film about the Cape Wind Project a proposed wind farm in Massachusetts, US.
• Altahullion Wind farm A Quicktime VR panorama illustrating the scale of the largest wind farm in Ireland
• Wind power
• MySME.deInformation on Wind Farm Development in Germany
• Offshorewind.net — Offshore wind energy information.
• www.world-wind.energy.info — Basic information of wind energy utilisation (technology, planning a wind farm, grid integration etc.), presented by the World Wind Energy Association
• American Wind Energy Association. An association promoting wind power growth through advocacy and education.
• Pictures of a Wind Farm being deployed
• National Wind Watch — A coalition of US wind power opposition groups.
• Chanson, Hubert (2004). Wind Farms in Brittany (Bretagne), France. Shore and Beach, 72 3: 15-16
• Wind Farm Buffets Family, Town Relations by David Baron. Retrieved on 2008-04-09.