Wind power is a popular, sustainable, renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the environment than burning fossil fuels.
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16 Facts About Wind power
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Wind power is variable renewable energy, so power-management techniques are used to match supply and demand, such as: wind hybrid power systems, hydroelectric power or other dispatchable power sources, excess capacity, geographically distributed turbines, exporting and importing power to neighboring areas, or grid storage.
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Wind power energy is the kinetic energy of air in motion, called wind.
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Wind power is the movement of air across the surface of the Earth, driven by areas of high and low pressure.
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The Global Wind Atlas provided by the Technical University of Denmark in partnership with the World Bank provides a global assessment of wind power potential.
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Wind power farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location.
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Wind power resources are not always located near to high population density.
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Electric power generated from wind power can be highly variable at several different timescales: hourly, daily, or seasonally.
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Wind power advocates argue that periods of low wind can be dealt with by simply restarting existing power stations that have been held in readiness, or interlinking with HVDC.
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The price of wind power is therefore much more stable than the volatile prices of fossil fuel sources.
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Wind power projects provide local taxes, or payments in place of taxes and strengthen the economy of rural communities by providing income to farmers with wind turbines on their land.
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The surplus Wind power produced by domestic microgenerators can, in some jurisdictions, be fed into the network and sold to the utility company, producing a retail credit for the microgenerators' owners to offset their energy costs.
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Wind power turbines have some of the lowest global warming potential per unit of electricity generated.
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Wind power cannot be cut off unlike oil and gas so can contribute to energy security.
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Wind power has been used as long as humans have put sails into the wind.
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Wind power was widely available and not confined to the banks of fast-flowing streams, or later, requiring sources of fuel.
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