A Wind Farm is a collection of wind turbines in the same location and used for the generation of wind power electricity.
Variability of electricity production by windfarms mean that extra overheads are incurred integrating their usage into an electric grid.
A proposed solution for wind energy and other intermittent power sources is to create a supergrid of interconnected wind farms across western Europe.
This would consist of a large-scale array of dispersed wind farms, located in different wind regimes........
A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy.
If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator.
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into more useful forms, usually electricity using wind turbines. At the end of 2006, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 74,223 megawatts; although it currently produces less than 1% of world-wide electricity use.
Wind power is used in large scale wind farms for national electrical grids as well as in small individual turbines for providing electricity to rural residences or grid-isolated locations.
Wind energy is ample, renewable, widely distributed, clean, and reduces toxic atmospheric and greenhouse gas emissions if used to replace fossil-fuel-derived electricity. The intermittency of wind seldom creates problems when using wind power at low to moderate penetration levels.
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