1. Generating Electricity: Wind Power

2. Wind Resources

3. CT Wind Resources

4. Mass. Wind Resources

5. Small Wind Turbines 10 kW 50 kW 400 W 900 W

6. Eastern Hall 400W

7. Large Turbines

8. Large Wind Turbines 0.55 MW to 3.6 MW

9. Wind Turbine Components Nacelle 56 tons Tower 3 sections Workers Blade 112’ long

10. Wind Turbine Components

11. Steam Turbine

12. 30 Year Lifetime

13. Financing

14. Costs

15. Example: Desert Sky – West Texas 107 Turbines at 1.5 MW each

16. Example: Searsburg Wind Facility 11 Turbines at 0.55 MW each

17. Example: Cape Wind Project  130 turbines  3.6 MW each

18. Cape Wind project

19. Environmental Issues

20. Environmental Issue – Visual Pollution  Visual pollution  Bird and bat migration

21. Environmental Issue – Bird Mortalities

22. Electric Power Capacity (MW) US970,000 Renewable97,000 (10%) Wind6,000 (1/2%) 40 x Current Wind 240,000 (25%)