User:Teratornis/Wind turbines on public display
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Dansk: Vindmøller på offentlige display · Deutsch: Windenergieanlagen auf die öffentliche Darstellung · English: Wind turbines on public display · Español: Turbinas eólicas en exposición pública · Français : Des éoliennes sur l'affichage public · Italiano: Le turbine eoliche al pubblico · Nederlands: Windturbines op scherm · Polski: Turbiny wiatrowe na publiczne wyświetlanie · |
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See also: Category:Wind turbines on public display |
This gallery features wind turbines in urban areas, at schools, or in parks; wind farms with visitor centers; wind turbines visited by the public; and wind turbines for education, demonstration, and public relations.
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[edit] Australia
- Blayney Wind Farm, New South Wales has a viewing area and interpretive centre
- Wattle Point Wind Farm, South Australia has an information centre
 Blayney Wind Farm, New South Wales viewing area |
 Wattle Point Wind Farm, South Australia's information centre |
[edit] Bahrain
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See also: Category:Bahrain World Trade Center |
- The Bahrain World Trade Centre features three wind turbines between two aerodynamically-shaped skyscrapers
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[edit] Canada
- OPG 7 commemorative turbine is a Vestas V80-1.8MW wind turbine on the site of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
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See also: Category:WindShare |
- Toronto Hydro - WindShare features a Lagerwey Wind model LW 52 wind turbine at Exhibition Place
 WindShare 750 kW, direct drive, Lagerwey Wind model LW 52 wind turbine in Toronto, Ontario |
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[edit] People's Republic of China
- Inner Mongolia's Huitengxile Wind Farm has 14 visitor centers to accommodate wind power tourists to the remote region[1]
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[edit] Hong Kong
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See also: Category:Lamma Winds |
- Lamma Winds in Hong Kong has a single Nordex N50/800 kW model with a rotor diameter of 50m and a nameplate capacity of 800kW
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[edit] Germany
One wind turbine of the type Enercon E-66 at Windpark Holtriem, Germany carries an observation deck, open for visitors.[2]
To-do: find freely licensed photos of this wind turbine, if possible. The source I referenced above has several photos of the inside and outside of the wind turbine, but they are for non-commercial use only according to the author.
- Search Flickr for images with the keywords: Windpark Holtriem under these licenses: cc-by or cc-by-sa
- Search Flickr for images with the keywords: Westerholt under these licenses: cc-by or cc-by-sa
- Search Flickr for images with the keywords: Aurich under these licenses: cc-by or cc-by-sa
- Search Flickr for images with the keywords: wind turbine lower Saxony under these licenses: cc-by or cc-by-sa
- Search Flickr for images with the keywords: wind turbine Germany under these licenses: cc-by or cc-by-sa
- Search Flickr for images with the keywords: Holtriem under these licenses: cc-by or cc-by-sa
No luck so far.
[edit] Netherlands
The Siemens plant in Zoetermeer features a wind turbine with 40m blade length and an observation deck.
 Wind turbine with observation deck at Siemens plant in Zoetermeer |
[edit] New Zealand
- Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand has a 230 kW wind turbine
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[edit] United Kingdom
- Dagenham wind turbines - two Enercon E-70 wind turbines power a Ford engine factory[3]
 Dagenham turbine 1 |
 Dagenham turbine 1 |
 Dagenham turbine 2 |
 Dagenham turbine 2 |
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- The Green Building in Manchester city centre has solar panels and a small wind turbine on the roof
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 The Green Building |
- GreenPark Business Park has an Enercon E-70 2 MW wind turbine[4] adjacent to the M4 motorway, billed as the UK's most visible turbine
- Renewable Energy Systems has a Vestas V29 225 kW wind turbine[5] visible from the M25 motorway at its headquarters at Beaufort Court, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
- Scroby Sands wind farm has a visitor center at Great Yarmouth open during the tourist season (May-October)
- Scout Moor Wind Farm "has become a real tourist attraction"[6] since its 2008 opening
- Ecotricity's EcoCentre in the town of Swaffham has an Enercon E-66 wind turbine with an observation deck
 Vestas V29 wind turbine at Beaufort Court, Kings Langley, UK |
 Enercon E-70 at GreenPark Business Park, UK |
 Scroby Sands wind farm off the coast of Great Yarmouth, UK |
 Visitor Centre at Scroby Sands wind farm |
 Enercon E-66 at Swaffham's Ecotech centre, showing observation deck below nacelle |
 Closeup of the Enercon E-66 at Swaffham |
[edit] United States
- Dorchester - Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers installed the first commercial-scale wind turbine within the City of Boston, a 100 kW unit from Fuhrlaender on a 35-meter tower with rotor diameter of 21 meters, visible from the en:John F. Kennedy Library[7]
- The Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio has a reconditioned Vestas V27 wind turbine with a nameplate capacity of 225 kW[8]
- Great River Energy's headquarters in Maple Grove, Minnesota has a NEG Micon M700 wind turbine, visible from Interstate 94[9][10]
- Lubbock, Texas has a Vestas V47 at the American Wind Power Center
- McKinney, Texas has a Wal-Mart store with several sustainability features, including two wind turbines manufactured by Bergey Windpower, of 1 kW and 50 kW nameplate capacity respectively[11]
- Sweetwater has a 2 MW 60Hz DeWind D8.2 prototype wind turbine[12] for training students in the Texas State Technical College wind energy program[13]
 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers wind turbine at 256 Freeport Street, Dorchester MA |
 Vestas V27 at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio |
 Vestas V47 wind turbine at American Wind Power Center in Lubbock, Texas |
 The NEG Micon M700 wind turbine at the Great River Energy headquarters in Maple Grove, Minnesota |
 GE Energy 1.5 MW wind turbine at the North American Wind Research and Training Center of Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, New Mexico |
[edit] See also
To-do: make a {{Navbox}} template about wind power.
[edit] References
- ↑ Zhou, Renjie; Yadan Wang (2007-08-14). Residents of Inner Mongolia Find New Hope in the Desert. Worldwatch Institute. Retrieved on 2008-11-04.
- ↑ Janssen, Wolfgang. Wind turbine with observation deck in Westerholt / Germany. Retrieved on 2009-07-06.
- ↑ Grover, Sami (2009-06-01). Stunning Urban Wind Turbines Circumvent NIMBYs. Retrieved on 2009-07-11.
- ↑ Green energy. BNET (11 2005). Retrieved on 2008-11-12.
- ↑ Power from the wind (PDF). Renewable Energy Systems. Retrieved on 2008-11-16.
- ↑ Wind farm is in the frame. Bury Times (2008-11-28). Retrieved on 2008-12-12.
- ↑ Boston's First Wind Turbine Serves as Example. RenewableEnergyAccess.com (2005-05-18). Retrieved on 2008-11-03.
- ↑ Wind Turbine Project Q & A. Great Lakes Science Center (2006-05-17). Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
- ↑ Great River's new headquarters 'LEEDs' by example. Reliable Energy Solutions. Retrieved on 2008-11-01.
- ↑ Levy, Paul (2007-11-27). An energy model for all to see. Star Tribune. Retrieved on 2008-11-02.
- ↑ Broehl, Jesse (2005-07-22). Wal-Mart Deploys Solar, Wind, Sustainable Design. Renewable Energy World. Retrieved on 2008-11-01.
- ↑ DeWind Plans Wind Turbine Demo Site in Sweetwater, Texas. BNET Business Network (2007-09-06). Retrieved on 2008-11-05.
- ↑ Block, Ben (2008-07-24). In Windy West Texas, An Economic Boom. Retrieved on 2008-11-05.
