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Alstom Wind (Spain) – subsidiary of General Electric since 2015; Enron Wind (now defunct) – wind-turbine manufacturing assets bought by General Electric in 2002; Fuji Heavy Industries (Japan) – the wind turbine business was acquired by Hitachi in 2012; Gamesa (Spain) NEG Micon (Spain) – was bought by Gamesa; NEG Micon – now part of Vestas
California was the first U.S. state where large wind farms were developed, beginning in the early 1980s. [6] By 1995, California produced 30 percent of the entire world's wind-generated electricity. [7]
Canisteo wind farm New York: 291 [102] Sapphire Sky wind farm Illinois: 260 [103] Badger Wind Farm North Dakota: 250 [104] 25 Mile Creek Wind Oklahoma: 250 [105] Blackjack Creek Wind Farm Texas: 240 [106] Great Pathfinder wind farm Iowa: 224 [107] Ledyard Wind Farm Iowa: 207 [108] Chowan County Wind Farm (2023) North Carolina: 188 [109]
Wind farm Offshore BOEM wind energy lease area Receiving state Coordinates Capacity Projected completion Turbines Developer /Utility Regulatory agency Refs TBA: Offshore Northern California OCS-P 0561 63,338 acres (25,632 ha) CA: RWE Offshore Wind Holdings [73] TBA Offshore Northern California OCS-P 0562 69,031 acres (27,936 ha) CA
This is at least partly due to usage by windpump builders Eclipse Windmill Company (1873) and Aermotor Windmill Company (1888, the sole surviving US "windmill" manufacturer [1]). And it is also used by many to refer to modern wind turbines generating electricity.
The Shiloh wind power plant is a wind farm located in the Montezuma Hills of Solano County, California, USA, close to Bird's Landing and Collinsville, 40 miles (64 km) northeast of San Francisco. It has a nameplate capacity of 505 megawatts (MW) of power and was built in four stages between 2005 and 2012.
[4] [needs update] Clipper Windpower had an agreement with BP Energy to supply the 2.5 MW turbines for the proposed 5,050 MW Titan Wind Project in South Dakota. Among the projects completed with Clipper wind turbines is Steel Winds in Lackawanna, New York, south of Buffalo, where an urban wind farm was developed on part of a brownfield.
The company was founded in 1998, and released their first patented vertical axis wind turbines in May 2006. [1] [2] In 2007, they added another two models of turbines to their product lineup. [3] In November 2008, certain intellectual property assets of PacWind were acquired by WePOWER, LLC.