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Wind Facility

Facilities that generate electricity from wind turbines, onshore or offshore, including the Jiuquan Wind Power Base and the Hornsea 2 Offshore Wind Farm. Belongs here: a facility whose generating technology is wind turbines.

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Era of Emergence
1980 1
Physical Basis
Mechanical (Wind) 1
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1. Wind farm - Wikipedia
  • Wind farm, Onshore section, Crotched Mountain sentence
    The capacity of the world's first wind farm was 0.6 MW, produced by 20 wind turbines rated at 30 kilowatts each, installed on the shoulder of Crotched Mountain in southern New Hampshire in December 1980.
  • Wind farm, lead section, definition sentence
    a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity
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