WIND GENERATION

Wind turbines convert the kinetic energy of the wind into electrical energy. Given that the UK has roughly 40% of the entire wind resource of Europe, there is significant potential to extract energy from this source. However, to date this has been under utilised.

Domestic wind turbines are much smaller than those seen in wind farms, but they operate in much the same way, providing output from just a few tens of Watts to several kilowatts for household sized installations.

Of all the domestic renewable energy systems, wind turbines are probably the most controversial, whilst also being more difficult to predict in terms of performance due to the large number of variables involved.

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