enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Wind turbine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine

   By the 1930s, use of wind turbines in rural areas was declining as the distribution system extended to those areas. [16] A forerunner of modern horizontal-axis wind generators was in service at Yalta, USSR, in 1931. This was a 100 kW generator on a 30-meter (98 ft) tower, connected to the local 6.3 kV distribution system.

3. History of wind power - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wind_power

   Throughout the 20th century, parallel paths developed small wind plants suitable for farms or residences and larger utility-scale wind generators that could be connected to electricity grids for remote use of power. Wind-powered generators operate in sizes ranging between tiny plants for battery charging at isolated residences up to near ...

4. List of wind turbine manufacturers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_turbine...

   Mingyang Wind Power (China) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) Končar (Croatia) Mapna (Iran) Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (Germany/Spain) STX Windpower (South Korea / The Netherlands) TECO (Taiwan) Vergnet (France) Vestas (Denmark) – the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines [ 3]

5. Vaneless ion wind generator - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator

   The design of ion wind generators eliminates the intermediate conversion of mechanical energy undergone in wind turbines. Wind turbines use the kinetic energy of the wind to rotate several blades about a rotor. The rotor's mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy by an electric generator.

6. Wind power - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power

   e. Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly used to generate electricity. This article deals only with wind power for electricity generation. Today, wind power is generated almost completely with wind turbines, generally grouped into ...

7. Wind power in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United...

   The first municipal use of multiple wind-electric turbines in the USA may have been a five turbine system in Pettibone, North Dakota in 1940. These were commercial Wincharger units on guyed towers. [12] In 1980, the world's first wind farm, consisting of twenty 30 kW wind turbines was installed at Crotched Mountain, in New Hampshire. [13]