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An aerial view of the Power County wind farm in Power County, Idaho, with Nordex N100/2500 turbines

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

In 2020, wind supplied almost 1600 TWh of electricity, which was over 5% of worldwide electrical generation and about 2% of energy consumption. With over 100 GW added during 2020, mostly in China, global installed wind power capacity reached more than 730 GW. To help meet the Paris Agreement goals to limit climate change, analysts say it should expand much faster - by over 1% of electricity generation per year. (Full article...)

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Whitelee wind farm with the Isle of Arran in the background

Whitelee Wind Farm is a windfarm on the Eaglesham moor in Scotland. The main visitor centre is located in East Renfrewshire, but the majority of turbines are located in East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire. It is the largest on-shore wind farm in the United Kingdom (second in Europe to Fântânele-Cogealac, in Romania) with 215 Siemens and Alstom wind turbines and a total capacity of 539 megawatts (MW), with the average of 2.5 MW per turbine. Whitelee was developed and is operated by ScottishPower Renewables, which is part of the Spanish company Iberdrola.

The Scottish government had a target of generating 31% of Scotland's electricity from renewable energy by 2011 and 100% by 2020. The majority of this is likely to come from wind power. (Full article...)

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Four offshore wind farms are in the Thames Estuary area: Kentish Flats, Gunfleet Sands, Thanet and London Array. The latter was largest in the world.
Jeffreys Bay windfarm off the N2 between Jeffreys Bay and Humansdorp
The mill c.1892
The mill as preserved
Danish Smock mill from 1895 at Sønderho, Fanø, with fantail
Haigh Windmill
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India has many large wind power production farms (10MW and greater) (Full article...)
Leonardusmolen, in Limburg area, Netherlands
Moulin de Craca.
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This is a comprehensive list of onshore wind farms (more than 1 turbine) in the UK. This information is gathered from multiple Internet sources, primarily the UK Wind Energy Database from RenewableUK (formerly BWEA) and The Wind Power's database, and is current up to October 2010. The name of the wind farm is the name used by the energy company when referring to the farm and is usually related to the name of the physical location. E.g. hill, moor, fell, down etc. or the name of the agricultural farm for the smaller installations on property owned by farmers. The "wind farm" part is implied and hence removed for clarity in most cases. (Full article...)
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This article lists all power stations in Uruguay. (Full article...)
The rustic/original appearance of one of the windmills, on the eastern edge of Ponta Negra
The windmill in 2013
Amogdoul Wind Farm, Essaouira
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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...)
De Olifant at Burdaard, Friesland
Blennerville Windmill
Gudhjem Windmill, Bornholm
Pedersker Kirkemølle, Bornholm
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
This is a list of operational offshore wind farms in Japan. (Full article...)
Kitka Wind Park
2018 wind farm map
German Windmill, 30 March 2016

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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...)

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

Image 1Offshore Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs) at Scroby Sands Wind Farm, England (from Wind turbine)
Image 2An aerial view of Whitelee Wind Farm, the largest onshore wind farm in the UK and second-largest in Europe (from Wind farm)
Image 3Windmill in Kuremaa, Estonia (from Windmill)
Image 4Don Quixote being struck by a windmill (1863 illustration by Gustave Doré). (from Windmill)
Image 5Part of the Biglow Canyon Wind Farm, Oregon, United States with a turbine under construction (from Wind farm)
Image 6The Australian Canunda Wind Farm, South Australia at sunrise (from Wind farm)
Image 7Components of a horizontal axis wind turbine (gearbox, rotor shaft and brake assembly) being lifted into position (from Wind turbine)
Image 8Nashtifan wind turbines in Sistan, Iran. (from Wind turbine)
Image 9Interior view, Pantigo windmill, East Hampton, New York Historic American Buildings Survey (from Windmill)
Image 10A turbine blade convoy passing through Edenfield, England (from Wind turbine)
Image 11The 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 12Cross section of a post mill (from Windmill)
Image 13Nacelle of a wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 14Wind farm interference (in yellow circle) on radar map (from Wind farm)
Image 15The Pubnico Wind Farm taken from Beach Point, Lower East Pubnico, Nova Scotia (from Wind farm)
Image 16Gouda Wind Facility, South Africa. (from Wind farm)
Image 17Three wind turbines in a storm (from Windmill)
Image 18Wind turbines overlooking Ardrossan, Scotland (from Wind farm)
Image 19Wind farm in Xinjiang, China (from Wind farm)
Image 20A 19th-century reconstruction of Heron's wind-powered organ description. (from Windmill)
Image 21Workers inspect wind turbine blades (from Wind turbine)
Image 22Kiosk 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 23Map of available wind power over the United States. Colour codes indicate wind power density class (from Wind farm)
Image 24Hooper's Mill, Margate, Kent, an eighteenth-century European horizontal windmill (from Windmill)
Image 25James Blyth's electricity-generating wind turbine, photographed in 1891 (from Wind turbine)
Image 26Oilmill De Zoeker, paintmill De Kat and paltrok sawmill De Gekroonde Poelenburg at the Zaanse Schans (from Windmill)
Image 27SouthBrooklynMarineTerminalWindTurbine. (from Wind turbines on public display)
Image 28The Tafila Wind Farm in Jordan, is the first large scale wind farm in the region. (from Wind farm)
Image 29Inside view of a wind turbine tower, showing the tendon cables (from Wind turbine)
Image 30Diagram of the smock mill at Meopham, Kent (from Windmill)
Image 31Éole, the largest vertical axis wind turbine, in Cap-Chat, Quebec, Canada (from Wind turbine)
Image 32Roscoe Wind Farm An onshore wind farm in West Texas (from Wind farm)
Image 33Fuhrländer Wind Turbine Laasow, in Brandenburg, Germany, among the world's tallest wind turbines (from Wind turbine)
Image 34A windmill in Kotka, Finland in May 1987 (from Windmill)
Image 35Windpump in far western NSW. (from Windmill)
Image 361813 technical drawing (from Windmill)
$Image 37Offshore windfarms, including floating windfarms, provide a small but growing fraction of total windfarm power generation. Such power generation capacity must grow substantially to help meet the IEA's Net Zero by 2050 pathway to combat climate change. (from Wind farm)$

Image 37Offshore 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 38The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (from Windmill)
Image 39The 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 40A vertical axis Twisted Savonius type turbine. (from Wind turbine)
Image 41De Valk windmill in mourning position following the death of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in 1962 (from Windmill)
Image 42Technical drawing of a 1793 Dutch smock mill for land drainage (from Windmill)
Image 43Windshaft, brake wheel, and brake blocks in smock mill d'Admiraal in Amsterdam (from Windmill)
Image 44Counter-rotating wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 45Components of a horizontal-axis wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 46The Persian horizontal windmill, the first practical windmill. (from Windmill)
Image 47The Nordex N50 wind turbine and visitor centre of Lamma Winds in Hong Kong, China (from Wind turbine)
Image 48The San Gorgonio Pass wind farm in California, United States. (from Wind farm)
Image 49Onshore Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China (from Wind turbine)
Image 50Aermotor-style windpump in South Dakota, USA (from Windmill)
Image 51A group of wind turbines in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China (from Windmill)
Image 52Development in size and power of wind turbines, 1990–2016 (from Wind turbine)
Image 53A wind turbine in Huikku, Hailuoto, Finland (from Windmill)
Image 54Light pole wind turbine (from Wind turbine)
Image 55A wind farm in a mountainous area in Galicia, Spain (from Wind farm)
Image 56Vertical Axis Wind Turbine offshore (from Wind turbine)
Image 57A 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 58Tower mills in Consuegra, Spain (from Windmill)
Image 59Thorntonbank Wind Farm, using 5 MW turbines REpower 5M in the North Sea off the coast of Belgium. (from Wind turbine)
Image 605-sail Holgate windmill in York, England (from Windmill)
Image 61The 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 62A windmill in Wales, United Kingdom. 1815. (from Windmill)
Image 63Offshore wind turbines near Copenhagen, Denmark. (from Wind farm)
Image 64An isometric drawing of the machinery of the Beebe Windmill (from Windmill)
Image 65Two smock mills with a stage in Greetsiel, Germany (from Windmill)
Image 66The three primary types: VAWT Savonius, HAWT towered; VAWT Darrieus as they appear in operation (from Wind turbine)
Image 67The Hancock County wind energy center in Iowa (from Wind turbines on public display)
Image 68A wind farm overlooking Bada Bagh, India (from Wind farm)
Image 69Windmill in the Azores islands, Portugal. (from Windmill)
Image 70Nordex wind turbine manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States (from Wind turbine)
Image 71Livestock near a wind turbine (from Wind farm)
Image 72Jhimpir Wind Farm, Pakistan (from Wind farm)
Image 73San Gorgonio Pass wind farm, California (from Wind farm)

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