Energy captured from moving air, milled for grain and pumped for water over many centuries and turned to electricity from the late 1880s. Modern three-blade turbines, on land and increasingly offshore, made wind one of the two fastest-growing electricity sources of the early twenty-first century alongside solar power.
Facts
Source Class First Commercial YearCharles Brush built a wind turbine generating electricity for his Cleveland home in 1888; James Blyth in Scotland lit his cottage by wind in 1887. Neither was commercial in the modern sense; grid-scale wind farms date from the early 1980s in California and Denmark. Connections
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IRENA's founding mandate (2009) spans all renewable technologies including wind power.
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Onshore wind farm, Tehachapi Pass, California, one of the largest wind facilities by capacity in the United States.
Onshore wind farm development project, Tehachapi Pass, California, United States.
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Offshore wind farm construction project, North Sea, United Kingdom, set to be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Offshore wind farm development project, North Sea, United Kingdom.
Large-scale wind power base development project, Gansu, China.
Offshore wind farm, outer Thames Estuary, United Kingdom, among the largest offshore wind farms by capacity when built.
Offshore wind farm construction project, outer Thames Estuary, United Kingdom.
Offshore wind farm extension project, Irish Sea, United Kingdom.
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1. United States Energy Information Administration Official Site
2. Encyclopedia Britannica
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Official Site
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University of StrathclydeAssociated With: First Wind-Generated Electricity, Science on the Streets, James BlythQuote, Associated With: First Wind-Generated Electricity, Science on the Streets, James Blyth
installation of a cloth-sailed, horizontal wind turbine...at his Marykirk holiday cottage in July 1887
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10.45 GW
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