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Windmill
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Maple Ridge Wind Farm
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Currently, the second largest wind farm in the United States with 195 wind turbines.

Mühle am Wall
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By: DonMartini.
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This interesting Dutch-style windmill sits in a green space in the center of the city near the Altstadt and the main train station. A small pond stands beside the windmill and the gardens that surround it are filled with colorful plants and flowers. An interior café and restaurant offers excellent views of the surrounding parks and city center.

Vesta wind turbine blades
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Check out the blade transport system to load blades onto barges for transport across to Southampton.

Windmühle Rodenbeck
kaiken (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kaiken.

Seneca Falls Windmill
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By: mlc1us.

Wind Turbines
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By: mikeb9991.

Spanish Fork Canyon Windmill Farm
noname1583 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: noname1583.
Constructed in 2008 at a total cost of $213,000,000, the Spanish Fork Wind Farm consists of nine Suzlon wind turbines. Each windmill has a diameter of 350 feet and spins a turbine atop a 410 foot tower, and cost $23,000,000. The farm is expected to generate 55 GWh of electricity per year.

Windmill
daggerwell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: daggerwell.

Hogg Hill Windmill
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By: adrbr.

Tehachapi Pass wind farm
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

Windmill in Holland
alfjon (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: alfjon.
Windmill in Rotterdam Holland

Gibbet Windmill
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Kent Hills Wind Farm
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Kent Hills Wind Farm is a large wind farm project near Moncton, New Brunswick which was completed on December 31, 2008. The farm is the first in New Brunswick. It is owned and operated by TransAlta and the power is purchased by NB Power for supply to consumers.
The farm consists of thirty-two 3 megawatt (MW) wind turbines for a total capacity of 96 MW. The project produces 280,000 megawatt hours per year, enough power for 17,000 homes. The turbines used are Vestas V90-3MW model, which have a rotor diameter of 90 metres (295 ft) and sit atop an 80-metre (262 ft) tower.

Alta Wind Energy Center
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
The Alta Wind Energy Center is a wind farm located in Tehachapi Pass of the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California. As of 2012, it is the largest wind farm in the United States, with a combined installed capacity of 1,020 MW (1,370,000 hp). The project, being developed near Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm - site of the first large-scale wind farms installed in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s - is "a powerful illustration of the growing size and scope of modern wind projects".

Wind turbines
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Two wind turbines owned by We Energies (the local electric/gas utility). Erected in 1999, they stand at 290 feet tall alongside highway 41, south of Fond du Lac.
These were two of the first wind turbines built in the region. Today, several dozen are scattered across the landscape of Dodge County a few miles south of here.

Vestas Nacelle factory
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
This Vestas factory opened in 2010, and produces nacelles for wind turbines. Just to the north is a blade factory that opened in 2011.
A nacelle is a cover housing that houses all of the generating components in a wind turbine, including the generator, gearbox, drive train, and brake assembly.
Vestas has installed over 41,000 wind turbines for a capacity of just under 40 GW in 63 countries on five continents. The company employs more than 22,000 people globally, and has built production facilities in more than 12 countries.

Huge Wind Turbines
wil9000 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: wil9000.
There are thousands of electricity producing wind turbines near Palm Springs, California, and those in this photo are the largest ones I could find there.

Muppandal Wind Farm
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Searsburg Wind Farm
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
Green Mountain Power's Searsburg Wind Facility produces 6 megawatts of power.

Windmill
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
More to the east.

Camp Williams Wind Turbines
noname1583 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: noname1583.

Offshore windfarm
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Giant wind turbine blades in transit
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
129-foot wind turbine blades manufactured by Vestas Wind Systems of Denmark and shipped through the Port of Vancouver.

Old East Windmill
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.
he Old East Windmill at Heritage Museums & Gardens was built in 1800 in Orleans, Massachusetts. It served that community for 93 years grinding wheat, rye, barley and salt from the local salt works. During the Civil War the windmill also ground corn meal to be used as field rations for Union soldiers. In 1968, the windmill was sold to Heritage’s founder, J.K. Lilly, III, and moved to its present location. In order to make the 32 mile trip, the windmill was disassembled into four pieces. The move took ten days as each power line had to be lifted to accommodate the height of the windmill.

Windmills
Another on a similar tower 430 meters to the NW and one on a pole 1400 meters to the WNW.

Massive windmill turbine housings
The don't look so huge until you compare them to the brick warehouses next to them.

Enercon E-112 Wind Turbine
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Wind farm
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Constructed in 2000, it is the second wind farm built in New York. It features 10 turbines producing 6.6 megawatts.

A Wind and Solar Plant in Canary Islands
damein234 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: damein234.
On the island of Tenerife

Prince Township Wind Farm
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Prince Township Wind Farm is the third largest wind farm in Canada. It is located north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, mostly within the township of Prince but also extending into Unorganized Algoma (Dennis and Pennefather Townships), however it is visible from as far away as Pancake Bay Provincial Park. Prince I, 99 MW was completed in September 2006, Prince II, 90 MW, in November 2006. The average capacity factor for the first five full years of operation was 27.2%.

Mount Storm Wind Farm
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The Mount Storm Wind Farm is located 120 miles west of Washington, D.C. in Grant County, West Virginia. The wind farm includes 132 wind turbines each with a two megawatt (MW) capacity along 12 miles of the Allegheny Front. Construction of the wind farm began in 2006 and the project is now fully operational, generating up to 264 MW of electricity for the mid-Atlantic power grid.

Stateline Wind Farm
The Stateline Wind Farm is a wind farm located on Vansycle Ridge, which receives 16 to 18 mph (26 – 29 km/h) average wind speeds from the Columbia Gorge, on the border between Washington and Oregon in the United States. With 186 turbines currently operating in both states and 279 more approved for construction, it is the largest wind project in the Northwestern United States and will be the largest in the world. Costing $300 million to build, it began operation in 2001

Goonhilly Downs Wind farm
14 turbines.

Milford Wind Farm
The Milford Wind is a wind farm north of Milford in the territory of Beaver and Millard counties, Utah, United States. It is the Utah's largest wind energy project with total capacity of 306 MW. The project was developed in tho phases by First Wind. The first phase with a capacity of 204 MW has 97 wind turbines, including 58 Clipper Liberty 2.5-MW wind turbines and 39 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines. It went online in November 2009 and supported more than 300 development and construction jobs. First Wind spent about US$30 million with Utah-based businesses developing and building the first phase of the project. Another $50 million was spent statewide on items such as wages and taxes.

Alphonse Daudet Windmill
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.

Wind Turbines
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.

Wind Turbine at Great Lakes Science Center

Wild Horse Wind Farm
The Wild Horse Wind Farm is a 273-megawatt wind farm that generates energy for Puget Sound Energy that consists of one hundred forty-nine 1.8-megawatt Vestas V80 turbines on a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) site in Kittitas County, Washington, 15 miles (24 km) east of Ellensburg, Washington.

Spare Wind Turbine Blades
wil9000 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: wil9000.

Beebe Windmill
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
The Beebe windmill was built in 1820. Its four sails have been removed for repairs. Some of the BEV views show them on the ground.

Abandoned windmill

Tarifa wind farm

Wind Turbine
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.

Vestas Tower factory
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
This Vestas factory opened in 2010, and produces towers for wind turbines.
The new Pueblo, Colorado facility features nearly 13 million square feet of space and eight miles of on-site railway tracks for the transport of materials and finished tower components. The opening of Vestas Towers gives Vestas, a global leader in wind turbine production, a substantial capability to address growing needs among North American wind power plants for reliable, high performance wind turbines.
Vestas has installed over 41,000 wind turbines for a capacity of just under 40 GW in 63 countries on five continents. The company employs more than 22,000 people globally, and has built production facilities in more than 12 countries.

Windmill Cluster - Livermore
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

Hook Wind Mill
The windmill was built in 1806 and operated regularly until 1908. It is one of the most complete of the extant windmills on Long Island, New York. In 1922 the windmill was sold to the town of East Hampton. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Shepherds Flat Wind Farm
KRL (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: KRL.
338 turbines producing 845 MW. Construction ongoing in this image.

Windmill Cluster - Palm Springs
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

Old Longchamp Windmill
This windmill, which stands today on Longchamp racecourse was once part of a monastery. Nestled opposite the Suresnes pond, the first stone was laid on 12 June 1256 by king Saint Louis.
The windmill was demolished with the rest of the abbey when the clerics were banished during the revolution. It was rebuilt on the same foundations when the course was renovated in 1856. The roof and a wing were partially destroyed during a bombardment on 4 April, 1943, and repaired again in 1949.

Big Horn Wind Farm
The Big Horn Wind Farm has a 200 megawatt generating capacity and uses 133 GE Energy 1.5 MW wind turbines. This wind power plant is owned by Big Horn LLC, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables.It is located in Klickitat County, Washington and 98 percent of the land it is on remains available for traditional uses, such as hunting and farming.

Swearingen Windmill
In 1927, Ralph Swearingen's Old Mill Tourist Camp opened. It was an oasis for tourists featuring cabins, a restaurant, a gas station, and this windmill. After the business closed, all of the structures were torn down except for the windmill.
The more info link below shows an old photo of the business.

The Vermeer Mill
gudguy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: gudguy.
"The Vermeer Mill is a fully functional 1850s-style windmill, reaching 134 feet (41 m) high. The Vermeer Mill grinds wheat into flour using only wind power and is the tallest working windmill in the United States."

Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
Kinderdijk is in a polder at the confluence of the rivers Lek and Noord. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands.
The windmills of Kinderdijk are one of the best known Dutch tourist sites. They were placed on the list of UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997. --Wikipedia

Cedar Creek Wind Farm
The Cedar Creek Wind Farm is a 551.3MW, 397 wind turbine facility, consists of 2 phases, Cedar Creek I and Cedar Creek II, located 13km (8 miles) east of Grover in north-central Weld County, Colorado, which became fully operational with the completion of Cedar Creek II in 2010. The initial 300.5 megawatt (MW) Cedar Creek I wind power installation was completed on time, within budget and without incident - with the operation commencing on 21 November 2007. Cedar Creek I is an important contributor to Colorado's New Energy Economy, providing enough wind-powered electricity for 81,135 homes.[1] The power produced from the Cedar Creek wind farm is sold to the Public Service Company of Colorado. Cedar Creek II has an additional 150.8MW of generating capacity, and was commissioned in 2010.

Brixton Windmill
stuartwr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: stuartwr.
Brixton, urban south London, has a nice windmill up on the hill. Best place for a windmill of course.

Royal Seaforth Dock Wind Farm
6 turbines generating 3.6 Megawatts.

Tatanka Wind Farm
Tyco (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Tyco.
The 180 MW Tatanka Wind Farm, is located in Dickey County and McIntosh County, North Dakota, and McPherson County, South Dakota. It is the largest wind farm in North and South Dakota and generates enough renewable energy to power more than 60,000 U.S. homes.[1]
Tatanka Wind Farm is the first installation of Acciona's 1.5 MW wind turbines in the United States. Construction of the $381 million project began in April 2007. The plant went online on July 25, 2008.

Blyth Wind Farm
Blyth offshore wind farm was opened in December 2000, and the plant has been producing enough clean and renewable electricity to power 3,000 average households ever since. The turbines were manufactured by Danish wind energy company Vestas, and installed by the marine division of AMEC Capital Projects and Seacore.

Moulin de la Galette
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.

Melancthon/Amaranth II Wind Farm
KRL (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: KRL.
Widely spaced turbines. Part of the 132 MW. installation. More info at link below

Bidborough Windmill
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.
Bidborough Mill is a Grade II listed,[1] house converted tower mill in Bidborough, Kent, England. The Mill may be an eighteenth century tower mill, or an 1858 replacement for an earlier mill.[1] Parish records from 1759, 1763 and 1765 mention the purchase of flour for the relief of the poor.

Marsh Mill

American Wind Power Center & museum

Windmill St. Johannis Mühle
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.

Marengo Wind Farm
Marengo Wind Farm is an electricity generating wind farm facility located near Dayton, Washington, United States. It is owned by PacifiCorp and began operations in 2007. The facility has a generating capacity of 140 megawatts.

Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm
The Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm is located 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) west of Lydd on Romney Marsh. It was built by npower renewables and cost around £50 million. The 26 wind turbines, each 115 metres (377 ft) high, are distributed over an area of 4 km2 (1.5 sq mi) with peak generation of 59.8 MW.

Volendam Windmill Museum
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Carland Cross Wind farm
15 400Kw turbines.
The wind farm at Carland Cross is situated near Newquay, Cornwall.
It was the first project undertaken by Wind Resources Ltd.,
a company jointly owned by Renewable Energy Systems,
South Western Power and Scottish Power.
Carland Cross began generating on 27th August 1992, and is contracted to supply power to the National Grid under a ROC –based Power Purchase Agreement.

Sweetwater Wind Farm
KRL (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: KRL.
Two rows of generators in this area of new imagery. Older imagery to the east shows two larger patterns of new sites being cleared. Link below to news item on rate of construction; up to three generators a day.

Windmill farm (and foot and mouth burial site) on closed RAF Great Orton
Great Orton Repower
Location: Cumbria
Operator: Cumbria Wind Farms Ltd
Configuration: 6 X 660-kW V47
Operation: 2000
WTG supplier: Vestas
EPC: Wind Prospect
Quick facts: The original plant had 10 CWT 300 machines from Carter Wind Systems installed in 1993 at the old RAF Great Orton Airfield (aka Wiggonby) closed in 1952.

Weizenmühle Emden
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.

Wind turbine blades and other components

Herne Windmill

Cold Northcott Wind Farm
Cold Northcott wind farm is a wind farm situated near the hamlet either side of the A395. It consists of 22 twin-bladed turbines (similar to Great Eppleton) and can generate up to 6.3 megawatts of electricity. The turbines began operation in April 1993 and are manufactured by Cumbrian Wind Farms. Cold Northcott wind farm is operated by a three man crew of engineers who perform routine maintenance on the wind turbines.

East Dereham Windmill
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.
Norwich Road Mill or Fendick's Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill at East Dereham, Norfolk, England which is under restoration. Norwich Road Mill was built in 1836 by millwright James Hardy of Toftwood for Michael Hardy, who had a smock mill at Bittering.

Gardiners Island Windmill
The windmill was built in 1795 and added to the National Historic Register in 1978.

Windmill converted to a chapel at Reigate Heath Golf Club
The windmill on Reigate Heath adjacent to the Reigate Heath Golf Clubhouse is probably the only windmill in the world to have been consecrated as a place of worship. In 1880 the brick roundhouse of the disused mill was converted into a Chapel of Ease to St Mary's Parish Church, Reigate.
The chapel, named St Cross Chapel, was opened for services on 14 September 1880 and has continued to this day when services are held throughout the summer. People come from far and wide to visit the windmill, located in an attractive setting on the heath.
It was built about 1765, and ceased to grind about one hundred years later.

Jamestown Windmill
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Whitelee Wind Farm
Whitelee Wind Farm is the second largest wind farm in Europe (after Fântânele-Cogealac, in Romania) with 140 Siemens wind turbines and a total capacity of 322 megawatts (MW). Whitelee was developed and is operated by ScottishPower Renewables, which is part of the Spanish company Iberdrola. Whitelee Wind Farm has a 75 turbine extension under construction, which will add an additional 217 MW of capacity. Work on this extension is set for completion in 2012.

Outwood Windmill
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.
Outwood Windmill is a Grade I listed post mill in Outwood, Surrey. Built in 1665 by Thomas Budgen, a miller from Nutfield in Surrey, it is Britain's oldest working windmill.

Huge Wind Turbine Blades
Fabricated in Latin America and bound for wind farms in Alberta via the port of Olympia. The blades are each 137 feet long.

Windmill being repaired
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.

Blue Canyon Wind Farm
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
129 wind turbines have a collective capacity of 74.25 MW.

Huge windturbine towers at manufacturing plant

Vestas Blade factory
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Vestas has installed over 41,000 wind turbines for a capacity of just under 40 GW in 63 countries on five continents. The company employs more than 22,000 people globally, and has built production facilities in more than 12 countries.

Delfshaven Windmill

Boyd's Windmill
Boyd's Windmill, also known as Boyd's Wind Grist Mill, built in 1810, is a historic smock mill in Middletown, Rhode Island.

Roscoe Wind Farm (World's largest onshore windfarm)
The Roscoe Wind Farm in Roscoe, Texas, owned and operated by E.ON Climate & Renewables is the world's largest capacity wind farm with 627 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 781.5 MW, which surpasses the nearby 735.5 MW Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center.
The project cost more than $1 billion and provides enough power for more than 250,000 average Texan homes. It is located about 200 miles (320 kilometers) west of Fort Worth, and spans parts of four Texas counties and covers nearly 100,000 acres (400 km2), several times the size of Manhattan.

Vansycle Wind Project
The Vansycle I Wind Project (formerly Vansycle Wind Project) is a wind farm in Umatilla County, Oregon. It consists of 38 Vestas 0.66 MW wind turbines at the upper end of Vansycle Canyon with a collective nameplate generating capacity of 25.08 MW. The project was the first commercial wind energy project constructed and operated in Oregon and began operation in December 1998.

Bamburgh Castle windmill
The windmill was built in the 18th century by Dr Sharp. Times were hard and the price of grain high. Dr Sharp persuaded his fellow Lord Crew Trustees to bulk buy corn, which was stored in the castle, ground by the windmill then sold at reasonable rates to local people from a poor shop in the East Ward which also sold house hold essentials such as soap and candles.

Kretzschmar Windmill
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.

King Mountain Wind Farm
The King Mountain Wind Farm is a 278.2 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Upton County, Texas, United States. 214 Siemens 1.3 MW wind turbines are sited in rows along the south-eastern and north-western edges of a mesa surrounded by deep ravines. The project was completed in December 2001. Annual electricity production is more than 750 GW·h.

Paderborn Wind Farm
The Paderborn Wind Farm in Germany consists of 11 Vestas V-66 wind turbines, each 76m high with a 1.65 MW rated power, making a total installed capacity of 18.2 MW. The wind farm is sited near Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, was initiated locally by a group of developers, and is owned by 91 shareholders. Commissioning was in November 2000.
Germany is the world's largest user of wind power with an installed capacity of 20,621 MW in 2006.[2] More than 18,000 wind turbines are located in the German federal area and the country has plans to build more wind turbines.

Bohnsdorfer Bockwindmühle
The Bohnsdorfer Bockwindmühle is located at the "Deutsches Technik Museum" Berlin.
http://www.dtmb.de/

Loads of wind turbine blades
gamma (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: gamma.
Guess they are Propellors for Windgenerators..

Beinn an Tuirc Wind Farm
Beinn an Tuirc wind farm is a wind farm in Argyll, Scotland. The site has 46 turbines with a total generating capacity of 30.36 MW, and is operated by Scottish Power. It was commissioned in 2001 and started operation in 2002. It cost £21 million to build. The turbines were built by Danish company Vestas, which specializes in their manufacture. It is 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Campbeltown on the slopes of the Beinn an Tuirc, the highest hill on the Kintyre peninsula.