The number of turbines used in the calculation is to allow for the fact that as one gets further away
from an individual turbine there are more turbines at a similar distance to the nearest one.
Electricity output
from individual turbine farms can vary greatly (colored lines), but linking them up along whole coastlines can smooth out total power production (thick black line).
Arrays of wind turbines and other components including foundations, towers, underground cables (used to collect the power
from the individual turbines), step - up transformers, and switchgear connected through a single point to the transmission grid; group of wind turbines interconnected to a common utility system
Not exact matches
Individual small wind
turbines can produce
from 1.5 kW to 10 kW of electricity.
«These now 26 wind
turbines will directly benefit a few
individual property owners who will receive a significant and handsome, but ill - gotten gain,
from these wind
turbines, and all their neighbors will pay the price.»
Here there was resistance, particularly
from one
individual (Sarah Laurie) who went around telling people, with a complete lack of supporting evidence, that nearby wind
turbines would make them ill.
Ontario's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change received thousands of formal complaints
from people living near industrial wind
turbines, but did little about it, a coalition of groups and
individuals opposed to wind farm development is charging.
«It's a shift
from thinking about
individual wind
turbines to thinking about power plants,» says Fort Felker, director of the National Wind Technology Center at NREL.