How To Use Wind farm In A Sentence
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In B.C., wind advocates are touting its potential, and the first wind farm feeding the power grid in B.C. could be up and running by October 2005.
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The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
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UK gives final approval for the largest offshore wind farm, which will provide 25% of the electrical needs for the greater London residential area.
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If sufficient, the firm is planning to build a wind farm of up to 30 turbines which, at 90 metres high, would be visible for miles around.
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I suggest we start to look for the positive in this planned wind farm.
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Supporters argue that wind farms are a small price to pay for saving the planet.
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A protest group drew first blood in the fight to win people's opinions when an energy company showed its onshore wind farm proposals for Bradwell.
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He wants more offshore wind farms and wave energy schemes.
The Sun
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Billions have gone to wind farm and solar energy firms in recent years with business and households picking up the tab.
The Sun
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Gamesa said there is also potential in the 'repower' market in India, which involves upgrading old wind farms with new technology and equipment to raise their efficiency.
Spain's Gamesa to Double India Capacity
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They begged to be in the national park because they saw it as a means of resisting wind farms and of preserving already stratospheric house prices.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reactive power variation of wind farm interconnected with power grid leads to voltage fluctuation grid.
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Unlike the not-in-my-backyard litigious folk of Massachusetts, this Illinoisan with a clear view of Lake Michigan cannot wait to have a wind farm in my front yard.
Wind turbines off Cape Cod will ruin national treasure
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Wind farm experts and consultants West Coast Energy will be on hand to answer questions on the scheme.
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Bosses hope to sell more steel into the wind farm industry.
The Sun
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However, wind farms are often unpopular because they are unsightly.
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The fund manager warned that the government's move would leave the grid dependent on intermittent wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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AN offshore wind farm that will power up to 500,000 homes was given the go-ahead yesterday.
The Sun
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But the protesters, who are increasingly determined to halt the spread of wind farms, are unconvinced.
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A wind farm, for example, is likely to occupy more land than a thermal power station.
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We have to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, so we need more wind farms to produce cleaner electricity.
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The group also said that a lack of wind and rain had held back output at its hydroelectric schemes and wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Palm Springs is a curious button, as it was involved in environmental progressiveness long before fashion, with its vast wind farms and other ingenuities, and then it enjoyed a lost weekend during the Hope/Sinatra/Skelton period, where it smacked of overindulgence and development at the expense of eco-conscientiousness; and now it is back, retrofitting, retooling, and fashioning a green future, or at least one that strives for balance.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
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He insisted that the target had not been abandoned as part of a deal to secure a more modest cut for onshore wind farm subsidies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Down in the River Findhorn valley, below the wind farm site, the wife of the head gamekeeper on the Coignafearn estate, welcomes the campaign of resistance.
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Once the complete stupidity of these subsidies becomes apparent, governments will cease paying them and many wind farms will go bankrupt.
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The utopian, 'greenie' self-deceived BBC ignores the negative evidence about wind farms, which Christopher Booker and others have exposed, e.g.
JUST SO MUCH WIND..
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It would negate the need to build these inefficient wind farms and put a stop to the despoiling of Scotland's landscapes!
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Yet the average time it takes to get a wind farm through planning is five years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain is the world leader in its commitment to building offshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fund manager warned that the government's move would leave the grid dependent on intermittent wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will double its capacity if it builds all the onshore wind farms that it has in planning.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Edinburgh-based lender's wind farm and biomass projects are understood to be on the block.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wind farms, rather than windmills, are raising the hackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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I notice he wanders a little farther out in the pasture every time he sees me coming up the tree-lined driveway to Linda's Southwind Farm.
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Mr Hunt added that wind farms were necessary if Britain was to honour international obligations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide.
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Looking at the wind farm, I recall his rage at the sight of electricity pylons marching across a favourite valley.
Times, Sunday Times
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The event will include a technology study tour to Kingsmountain Wind Farm - the site of the Republic's largest onshore wind farm.
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Wind farm champions clashed with critics at a green energy meeting in Kendal.
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If ministers and their statutory bodies really want this review to have any credibility, they must stop posturing and place an immediate moratorium on all wind farm developments pending its completion.
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Palm Springs is a curious button, as it was involved in environmental progressiveness long before fashion, with its vast wind farms and other ingenuities, and then it enjoyed a lost weekend during the Hope/Sinatra/Skelton period, where it smacked of overindulgence and development at the expense of eco-conscientiousness; and now it is back, retrofitting, retooling, and fashioning a green future, or at least one that strives for balance.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
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We'll be competing for the engineering resources to deploy those wind farms in a global market where lots of other nations are trying to de-carbonise at the same time.
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But they insist that onshore wind farms still matter.
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Your report suggests that houses near wind farms have lost value.
Times, Sunday Times
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Enticed by public subsidies, Scotland is now playing host to a ‘wind rush’ with developers preparing to build a chain of up to 70 wind farms across the country.
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‘Most people in the local communities around here do not want the wind farm but feel as if they are being steamrollered into accepting it,’ said Sophie Dey.
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Eight medium-size wind farms are under construction.
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One of the world's biggest wind farms could be built off the coast of Essex.
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But Lynas does not see it that way: the real-world result of defeating the wind farm is that the electricity that would have been generated cleanly from the wind will now be generated using conventional means - a mixture of coal and gas.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Mr Derbyshire refers to Bolton street lights being powered by Welsh wind farms, and thereby extols their virtues.
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I will question environmental agencies that put birds before people, and inveigh against wind farms in the wrong places.
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The growing interest in wind farms stems from the government 's subsidy system.
Times, Sunday Times
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A third wind farm, perceived as a threat to a colony of sandwich terns, was rejected.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm cynical of the claims that the Westmill wind farm could supply the power needs of Faringdon.
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A PUB landlord took the mickey out of his MP neighbour's opposition to wind farms by erecting a mini-turbine in his back yard.
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They are also tied into contracts that stretch beyond 2012 for business parks, wind farms and the media city in Salford and are also responsible for dozens of contaminated industrial sites, such as disused coal fields, which cannot be sold unless they are first decommissioned.
Government's 'bonfire of the quangos' plan will cost as much as it saves
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The government previously announced reductions in subsidies for solar farms above 25 acres and onshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of the units NextEra operates there have capacity of hundreds of kilowatts, Stengel said, much smaller than the multimegawatt systems that are in use at most utility-scale wind farms today.
NextEra Replacing Thousands of Wind Turbines to Protect Birds - Bloomberg
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Residents who claim a wind farm on the fells would destroy the landscape and devastate tourism are being urged to oppose the development before it even becomes a formal proposal.
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BRITAIN'S upland birds are in danger of being driven off hills and mountains by onshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hybrid power station is being seen as a possible alternative to the increasingly unpopular wind farms.
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What it came down to was the support of the local council on whose land the wind farm is based, as well as key Green groups.
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The company says the wind farm would coexist with existing agricultural practices supporting farm diversification.
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The wind farm may be able to generate enough electricity/power for 2000 homes.
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Hundreds of objections to plans to build the wind farm have been made.
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The implementation of wind farms can create new skilled jobs, as well as helping to diversify economies in rural areas.
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But the protesters, who are increasingly determined to halt the spread of wind farms, are unconvinced.
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Already the wind farm legacy has left fractured and divided host communities, where developers have used the divide and rule strategy by creating winners and losers.
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Wind farms and oil rigs pollute the sea with noise, so whales are having to raise their voices to be heard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wind farms commit the unpardonable sin of being built on land that has ‘remained undisturbed for a thousand years’.
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The wind farm is being constructed on commonage.
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Billions have gone to wind farm and solar energy firms in recent years with business and households picking up the tab.
The Sun
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Early in his career, Mr. Kan developed an interest in renewable energies, and he still proudly shows a fading picture of himself as a young, long-haired legislator visiting a Colorado wind farm.
Japan's Ex-Premier Turns Anti-Nuclear Activist
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Your report suggests that houses near wind farms have lost value.
Times, Sunday Times
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Campaigners for wind farms are suspicious that the MoD has adopted a hardline policy some time after the scientific evidence was discovered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost half of all planning applications for wind farms capable of generating 5MW to 15MW are refused planning approval because of their unpleasing visual impact on the landscape.
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There are expected to be additional incentives for building offshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The £56 million site could be decommissioned and dismantled after 25 years, should a wind farm no longer be needed.
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A proposed wind farm consisting of ten wind turbines will supply the electricity needs of more than 20,000 homes.
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Coastal areas, hilltops, and mountain passes are common areas for wind farms.
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It has been estimated that if current plans proceed unhindered wind farms will be visible from every Munro in this land.
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The amount of potential electricity from onshore wind farms that has been allowed to go untapped has more than doubled this year because the grid cannot cope.
Times, Sunday Times
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Planning problems have held back British onshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wants more offshore wind farms and wave energy schemes.
The Sun
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WIND farms can cause stress and sleep loss for nearby residents, a Government review found.
The Sun
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Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
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The next generation of offshore wind farms looks set to be kiboshed because energy companies aren't prepared to invest on the subsidies being offered by the Government.
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A public inquiry will rule on a controversial plan to site a wind farm on moors north of Bury.
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Looking at the wind farm, I recall his rage at the sight of electricity pylons marching across a favourite valley.
Times, Sunday Times
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An even bigger threat from the proposed wind farm is potential damage to the peatland breeding habitat of wading birds like greenshank, dunlin, and golden plover.
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The plan means offshore wind farms are guaranteed to receive three times the current wholesale electricity price, while the biomass projects get double.
Times, Sunday Times
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The U.S. Federal Wind Energy Program was created at that time, and California became a showplace for large-scale wind farms.
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It is not very reassuring to learn that an enemy or hijacked aircraft could escape detection if it enters our airspace over a wind farm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bosses hope to sell more steel into the wind farm industry.
The Sun
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Wind farms, distributed across good locations to cover a service area, can be up and running in a year.
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Apart from vultures, most birds don't seem to be adversely affected by the wind farms that make use of the region's most plentiful natural resource.
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Plans for England's largest onshore wind farm, near Bradwell and Tillingham, could be abandoned after two more landowners pulled out.
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In March, Ingot Way died at Summer Wind Farm near Georgetown, Kentucky, at the age of 21 after foaling a colt by Awesome Again.
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With two rounds of projects in operation or being built, the government in January awarded a third round of licenses, for nine enormous wind farms stretching from Scotland's Moray Firth to the Isle of Wight in southern England.
Headwinds Buffet Green Energy Rush
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Doctors, lawyers, and dentists began throwing up turbines or buying shares in hastily erected wind farms to take easy advantage of the benefits.
The Elusive Green Economy
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There is a tide of complaints about onshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government previously announced reductions in subsidies for solar farms above 25 acres and onshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, so we need more wind farms to produce cleaner electricity.
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The development of wind farms will be encouraged and two gas-fired electricity generation plants are to be commissioned this year.
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Campaigners for wind farms are suspicious that the MoD has adopted a hardline policy some time after the scientific evidence was discovered.
Times, Sunday Times
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He felt dizzy, head swiveling back and forth as he took in the booths: those of companies operating wind farms, nonprofits seeking backers to create microgrids in remote parts of Third World countries, solar power companies, geothermal exploration operations and smaller outfits that made or installed photovoltaic arrays, flywheel and liquid sodium storage systems, batteries, superconductive transport systems, smart grids . . . the list was endless.
The Burning Wire
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You pay massive subsidies to build wind farms which you know are useless.
The Sun
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They believe that the wind farm will be a blot on the landscape, will be noisy and will result in a loss of green space for people who use and enjoy the countryside, such as walkers, cyclists and horse riders.
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Instead, they envisioned a wind farm for the summit, where Force Seven gusts beckon with the promise of green jobs forever to replace the estimated 20 years of easily extractible coal underfoot.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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Mr Hunt added that wind farms were necessary if Britain was to honour international obligations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide.
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He was soon back though, flannelling about questions on wind farms and tuition fees.
Times, Sunday Times
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What's unusual about the effort is its dimensions: While existing offshore wind projects tend to be in shallow waters close to the coast, the Moray Firth venture is expected to culminate in the first offshore wind farm in deep water (150 feet) far from land (15 miles).
Can Wind Power Find Its Footing in the Deep?
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Bellacorick power station and wind farm are 15 km to the south-west.
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(Said plan honestly doesn't sound that bad to me, but I'm just kind of disinclined to trust the dude) Pickens was just another obscure billionaire who looked like a heavily made-up Tom Wilkinson and was an ardent Bush Ranger up until a few years ago, when his debut in the public consciousness - long before he realized that all cars should run on clean national gas (he knows a guy who can get you a deal) (a guy named T. Boone Pickens, be-otch) and that wind farms (cf previous parentheses) were the way to go - came via his donation of
Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Cleaner air, using an abundant and renewable energy source, and providing various community benefits make wind farm development likely to continue, at least until more Americans change our energy-intensive ways.
Towering on the Horizon: Wind Farms and Energy Independence
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WIND farms can cause stress and sleep loss for nearby residents, a Government review found.
The Sun
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Four big wind farms or three more interconnector cables could bring as much electricity into the grid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wind farms are a horrible example of what happens when people with worthy intentions try to construct an ideology around them.
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But wind farms leave imprints on the environment, too, says the University of Calgary professor.
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Mr Hulme has been an outspoken protester against the plan for the wind farm, which developers say will provide green power for thousands of homes.
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Many people rather enjoy the sight of wind farms, while nuclear power stations are fairly unobjectionable and localised.
Times, Sunday Times
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The windy hills of south Cumbria are a natural magnet for wind farm speculators and many such farms are already established.
Times, Sunday Times
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A recent hearing of anemometry masts as a forerunner to an ‘industrial development’ (wind farm) had 164 objectors and a hearing in Elgin by Moray Council for Drummuir had over 120.
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There is a tide of complaints about onshore wind farms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wind farm may be able to generate enough electricity/power for 2000 homes.
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Perhaps with his assistance, a few of the 32 now being proposed will flounder - though no-one is seriously suggesting that there should be wind farms everywhere.
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A site for a Scottish wind farm that has been the subject of a bitter battle between two wealthy families has been sold to the energy company.
Times, Sunday Times
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The £50m wind farm would provide green power to 51,000 homes and would cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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Wind farms, rather than windmills, are raising the hackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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But those benefits disappear if the wind farms are owned by a utility.
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Bellacorick power station and wind farm are 15 km to the south-west.