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Dansk: Vindmøller på offentlige display
· Deutsch: Windenergieanlagen, öffentlich präsentiert
· 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
· 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.
Australia[edit]
- Blayney Wind Farm, New South Wales has a viewing area and interpretive centre
- Wattle Point Wind Farm, South Australia has an information centre
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Blayney Wind Farm, New South Wales viewing area -
Wattle Point Wind Farm, South Australia's information centre
Bahrain[edit]
See also: Category:Bahrain World Trade Center. - The Bahrain World Trade Centre features three wind turbines between two aerodynamically-shaped skyscrapers
Canada[edit]
- OPG 7 commemorative turbine is a Vestas V80-1.8MW wind turbine on the site of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
See also: Category:WindShare. - Toronto Hydro - WindShare features a Lagerwey Wind model LW 52 wind turbine at Exhibition Place
People's Republic of China[edit]
- Inner Mongolia's Huitengxile Wind Farm has 14 visitor centers to accommodate wind power tourists to the remote region[1]
- Huitengxile Wind Farm, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China
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Hong Kong[edit]
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
Germany[edit]
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.
Netherlands[edit]
The Siemens plant in Zoetermeer features a wind turbine with 40m blade length and an observation deck.
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Wind turbine with observation deck at Siemens plant in Zoetermeer
New Zealand[edit]
- Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand has a 230 kW wind turbine
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United Kingdom[edit]
- Dagenham wind turbines - two Enercon E-70 wind turbines power a Ford engine factory[3]
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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
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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 -
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Enercon E-66 at Swaffham's Ecotech centre, showing observation deck below nacelle -
Closeup of the Enercon E-66 at Swaffham
United States[edit]
- 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]
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GE Energy 1.5 MW wind turbine at the North American Wind Research and Training Center of Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, New Mexico
See also[edit]
To-do: make a {{Navbox}} template about wind power.
References[edit]
- ↑ 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.