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In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture. 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 ] ).
Iowa has the highest density of wind power generation capacity. Iowa electricity production by type. In 2010 and in 2009, Iowa led the U.S. in the percentage of electrical power generated by wind, at 15.4 percent and 14.2 percent. [10] This was up from 7.7 percent in 2008, as there was a large increase in the installed capacity in 2008. [11]
Samuel Schellinger (April 10, 1765 – January 18, 1848), was a millwright of Amagansett, New York and the craftsman who built the Pantigo (Mulford Farm) [1] windmill (1804), the Hayground Windmill (1809), the Amagansett windmill (1814) and the Beebe Windmill (1820) which are on the NRHP. [2] Later, he built the Setauket windmill. Records show ...
The project was built for MidAmerican Energy Company, a Des Moines, Iowa-based company and subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings. With 193 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines , it was the largest wind farm in Iowa when built.
The Highland Wind Energy Center is a 501.4 megawatt (MW) wind farm in O'Brien County, Iowa. It became the largest facility in the state when it was placed online in 2015. It became the largest facility in the state when it was placed online in 2015.
The turbine components for phase I were manufactured in 2006 at Clipper's facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They were shipped overland to the project site in early 2007, constructed, and placed online in April 2007. This marked the first commercial deployment of the 2.5 MW (3,400 hp) Liberty Series turbines. [11]
The tornado outbreak set a new record for the most tornadoes to hit Iowa in a single day with 61, far exceeding the previous record of 35 tornadoes set on August 31, 2014. Additionally, 21 of the tornadoes in Iowa were rated EF2 which beat the previous record of 16 EF2/F2 or greater tornadoes set on June 7, 1984.
Clipper Windpower is a wind turbine manufacturing company founded in 2001 by James G.P. Dehlsen. [1] It designed one of the largest wind turbines in the United States, manufactured in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.