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Wind power or wind energy is mostly the use of wind turbines to generate electricity. Wind power is a popular, sustainable, renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the environment than burning fossil fuels. Historically, wind power has been used in sails, windmills and windpumps but today it is mostly used to generate electricity. Wind farms consist of many individual wind turbines, which are connected to the electric power transmission network.

New onshore (on-land) wind farms are cheaper than new coal or gas plants, but expansion of wind power is being hindered by fossil fuel subsidies. Onshore wind farms have a greater visual impact on the landscape than some other power stations. Small onshore wind farms can feed some energy into the grid or provide power to isolated off-grid locations. Offshore wind farms provide a steadier and stronger source of energy and have less visual impact. Although there is less offshore wind power at present and construction and maintenance costs are higher, it is expanding. (Full article...)

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Wind Powering America (WPA) is an initiative of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) that seeks to increase the use of wind energy throughout the United States. WPA collaborates with key state and regional stakeholders, including farmers, ranchers, Native Americans, rural electric cooperatives, consumer-owned utilities, and schools to break down barriers associated with wind energy development.

Throughout its history, WPA has focused on states with strong potential for wind energy generation but with few operational projects. WPA provides fair and unbiased information about the challenges, benefits, and impacts of wind technology implementation. This information allows policymakers, organizations, and citizens to make educated and informed decisions about wind energy implementation in their communities. (Full article...)

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There are 19 operational wind farms in Latvia with capacity above 0.25 MW and 18 wind farms with capacity below 0.25 MW. (Full article...)
The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
$Image 3This is a list of operational, offshore wind farms in Denmark (within the national maritime boundaries). Denmark's wind power generation is the highest in the world as a fraction of domestic consumption, reaching 47% in 2019.Data is primarily from the 4C Offshore's Global Offshore Wind Farm Map and Database. Tariff data is supplied by the Danish Energy Agency. The name of the Wind Farm is the name used by the Energy Company when referring to the Farm and is usually related to a shoal or the name of the nearest town on shore. The Wind Farm part is implied and hence omitted for ease of reading. (Full article...)$

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This is a list of operational, offshore wind farms in Denmark (within the national maritime boundaries). Denmark's wind power generation is the highest in the world as a fraction of domestic consumption, reaching 47% in 2019.

Data is primarily from the 4C Offshore's Global Offshore Wind Farm Map and Database. Tariff data is supplied by the Danish Energy Agency. The name of the Wind Farm is the name used by the Energy Company when referring to the Farm and is usually related to a shoal or the name of the nearest town on shore. The Wind Farm part is implied and hence omitted for ease of reading. (Full article...)
Montefiore Windmill, 30 March 2016
The mill in June 2014
Four offshore wind farms are in the Thames Estuary area: Kentish Flats, Gunfleet Sands, Thanet and London Array. The last was the largest in the world from April 2013 to September 2018.
Alford Windmill, September 2005
Xarolla Windmill
Haigh Windmill
Smock mill with fantail (Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark)
The installed electrical capacity and production of Sri Lanka by sources, from 2000 to 2018.
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This article lists all power stations in Uruguay. (Full article...)
Henvey Inlet, the largest wind farm in Ontario and the third largest in Canada.
Offshore wind farms in the German Bight
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The Ben Darrah Water Tank and Well House near Shoshone, Idaho, United States, were built in c. 1916 by stonemason Bill Darrah. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983; the listing included two contributing buildings on 1.3 acres (0.53 ha).

The water tank is round, constructed of rock walls about 12 feet (3.7 m) tall and 14 feet (4.3 m) in diameter. It is covered by a concrete-coated wood plank cover. It is one of Bill Darrah's earlier water tank works, and was built for his brother Ben Darrah's upper ranch. (Full article...)
Old Buckenham Windmill
Diagram showing an underdrift windmill
The mill as preserved
Morgan Lewis Windmill
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Windmills are powered by their sails. Sails are found in different designs, from primitive common sails to the advanced patent sails. (Full article...)
Blennerville Windmill

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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 by means of vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications. The term wind engine is sometimes used to describe such devices. (Full article...)

Examples of multi-sailed windmills

Examples of tower mills

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The following are images from various wind power-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Éole, the largest vertical axis wind turbine, in Cap-Chat, Quebec, Canada (from Wind turbine)
Image 2Counter-rotating wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 3San Gorgonio Pass wind farm, California (from Wind farm)
Image 4Wind farm interference (in yellow circle) on radar map (from Wind farm)
Image 5Onshore Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China (from Wind turbine)
Image 6Wind turbines overlooking Ardrossan, Scotland (from Wind farm)
Image 7The Nordex N50 wind turbine and visitor centre of Lamma Winds in Hong Kong, China (from Wind turbine)
Image 8The Hancock County wind energy center in Iowa (from Wind turbines on public display)
Image 9Roscoe Wind Farm An onshore wind farm in West Texas (from Wind farm)
Image 10A 19th-century reconstruction of Heron's wind-powered organ (from Windmill)
Image 11Light pole wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 12Aermotor-style windpump in South Dakota, USA (from Windmill)
Image 13A turbine blade convoy passing through Edenfield, England (from Wind turbine)
Image 14Interior view, Pantigo windmill, East Hampton, New York Historic American Buildings Survey (from Windmill)
Image 15The rotor of a gearless wind turbine being set. This particular turbine was prefabricated in Germany, before being shipped to the U.S. for assembly. (from Wind turbine)
Image 16A wind farm in a mountainous area in Galicia, Spain (from Wind farm)
Image 17A vertical axis Twisted Savonius type turbine. (from Wind turbine)
Image 18The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (from Windmill)
Image 19An isometric drawing of the machinery of the Beebe Windmill (from Windmill)
Image 20Development in size and power of wind turbines, 1990–2016 (from Wind turbine)
Image 21Workers inspect wind turbine blades (from Wind turbine)
Image 22A wind farm overlooking Bada Bagh, India (from Wind farm)
Image 23The three primary types: VAWT Savonius, HAWT towered; VAWT Darrieus as they appear in operation (from Wind turbine)
Image 241813 technical drawing (from Windmill)
Image 25Kiosk at the base of the Lamma Winds Nordex N50/800kW wind turbine on Lamma Island with displays showing current power output and cumulative energy produced. (from Wind turbines on public display)
Image 26Nacelle of a wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 275-sail Holgate windmill in York, England (from Windmill)
Image 28Windmill in Kuremaa, Estonia (from Windmill)
Image 29Windpump in far western NSW. (from Windmill)
Image 30A windmill in Wales, United Kingdom. 1815. (from Windmill)
Image 31Egbert Livensz van der Poel, Windmill Fire (17th century), National Museum in Kraków (from Windmill)
Image 32The first automatically operated wind turbine, built in Cleveland in 1887 by Charles F. Brush. It was 60 feet (18 m) tall, weighed 4 tons (3.6 metric tonnes) and powered a 12 kW generator. (from Wind turbine)
Image 33The Persian horizontal windmill, the first practical windmill. (from Windmill)
Image 34De Valk windmill in mourning position following the death of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in 1962 (from Windmill)
Image 35Components of a horizontal-axis wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 36Windshaft, brake wheel, and brake blocks in smock mill d'Admiraal in Amsterdam (from Windmill)
Image 37Fuhrländer Wind Turbine Laasow, in Brandenburg, Germany, among the world's tallest wind turbines (from Wind turbine)
Image 38Wind farm in Xinjiang, China (from Wind farm)
Image 39Tower mills in Consuegra, Spain (from Windmill)
Image 40Vertical Axis Wind Turbine offshore (from Wind turbine)
Image 41Map of available wind power over the United States. Colour codes indicate wind power density class (from Wind farm)
Image 42Oilmill De Zoeker, paintmill De Kat and paltrok sawmill De Gekroonde Poelenburg at the Zaanse Schans (from Windmill)
Image 43Two smock mills with a stage in Greetsiel, Germany (from Windmill)
Image 44Inside view of a wind turbine tower, showing the tendon cables (from Wind turbine)
Image 45Thorntonbank Wind Farm, using 5 MW turbines REpower 5M in the North Sea off the coast of Belgium. (from Wind turbine)
Image 46Technical drawing of a 1793 Dutch smock mill for land drainage (from Windmill)
Image 47Components of a horizontal axis wind turbine (gearbox, rotor shaft and brake assembly) being lifted into position (from Wind turbine)
Image 48Nashtifan wind turbines in Sistan, Iran. (from Wind turbine)
Image 49The Australian Canunda Wind Farm, South Australia at sunrise (from Wind farm)
Image 50A windmill in Kotka, Finland in May 1987 (from Windmill)
Image 51SouthBrooklynMarineTerminalWindTurbine. (from Wind turbines on public display)
Image 52Diagram of the smock mill at Meopham, Kent (from Windmill)
Image 53An aerial view of Whitelee Wind Farm, the largest onshore wind farm in the UK and second-largest in Europe (from Wind farm)
Image 54Part of the Biglow Canyon Wind Farm, Oregon, United States with a turbine under construction (from Wind farm)
Image 55The Pubnico Wind Farm taken from Beach Point, Lower East Pubnico, Nova Scotia (from Wind farm)
Image 56The San Gorgonio Pass wind farm in California, United States. (from Wind farm)
Image 57Don Quixote being struck by a windmill (1863 illustration by Gustave Doré). (from Windmill)
Image 58A group of wind turbines in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China (from Windmill)
Image 59Windmill in the Azores islands, Portugal. (from Windmill)
Image 60Hooper's Mill, Margate, Kent, an eighteenth-century European horizontal windmill (from Windmill)
Image 61The Tafila Wind Farm in Jordan, is the first large scale wind farm in the region. (from Wind farm)
Image 62Offshore Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs) at Scroby Sands Wind Farm, England (from Wind turbine)
Image 63Livestock near a wind turbine (from Wind farm)
$Image 64Offshore windfarms, including floating windfarms, provide a small but growing fraction of total windfarm power generation. Such power generation capacity must grow substantially to help meet the IEA's Net Zero by 2050 pathway to combat climate change. (from Wind farm)$

Image 64Offshore windfarms, including floating windfarms, provide a small but growing fraction of total windfarm power generation. Such power generation capacity must grow substantially to help meet the IEA's Net Zero by 2050 pathway to combat climate change. (from Wind farm)
Image 65Cross section of a post mill (from Windmill)
Image 66James Blyth's electricity-generating wind turbine, photographed in 1891 (from Wind turbine)
Image 67A wind turbine in Huikku, Hailuoto, Finland (from Windmill)
Image 68Gouda Wind Facility, South Africa. (from Wind farm)
Image 69Nordex wind turbine manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States (from Wind turbine)
Image 70Jhimpir Wind Farm, Pakistan (from Wind farm)
Image 71The Gansu Wind Farm in China is the largest wind farm in the world, with a target capacity of 20,000 MW by 2020. (from Wind farm)
Image 72A small Quietrevolution QR5 Gorlov type vertical axis wind turbine in Bristol, England. Measuring 3 m in diameter and 5 m high, it has a nameplate rating of 6.5 kW to the grid. (from Wind turbine)
Image 73Offshore wind turbines near Copenhagen, Denmark. (from Wind farm)

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