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Ovenden Moor Wind Farm is a wind powered electricity generating site in England. Ovenden Moor is located north of Halifax and west of Bradford in West Yorkshire . The site was opened in 1993 with 23 turbines, but these were later removed in favour of larger turbines but with 14 fewer towers.
The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
It is the first offshore wind farm in Ireland, and the world's first erection of wind turbines rated over 3 MW. It is located on the Arklow Bank, a shallow water sandbank in the Irish Sea , around 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) off the coast of Arklow with an area of 27 by 2.5 kilometres (16.8 by 1.6 mi).
See List of windmills in the Netherlands; Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history (see list of windmills at Zaanse Schans). Other well-known windmills are the windmills at Kinderdijk.
The first commercial wind turbine in Michigan, installed in Leelanau County near Traverse City in 1996, was retired and dismantled in 2022. Wind power in Michigan is a developing industry. The industrial base from the automotive industry has led to a number of companies producing wind turbine parts in the state.
Viking Wind Farm is a large on-shore wind farm in the Shetland Islands which was developed by Viking Energy, [n 1] a partnership between Shetland Islands Council and SSE plc. It has a generation capacity of 443 MW. Construction started in September 2020 and the Viking Windfarm and its HVDC connection were completed in August 2024. [3]
Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of windmills and windpumps in the United Kingdom. ... Sutton Farm Titt iron wind engine: 1894 Easthampstead:
In 2011, the Hawi Wind Farm added a 1 megawatt back-up battery system to their wind farm. The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute approved this 1.8 million dollar project which allowed Altair Nanotechnologies to make this installation. This addition allows the wind farm to produce up to one megawatt of backup power that can be fed into the grid if ...