Choose Wind Power

06/07/2011

Originally a presentation found at: http://www.slideshare.net/windturbinesnet

06/07/2011

What is the Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm?
The Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm features five 397 foot tall turbines that provide electricity to more than 2,000 New Jersey homes without polluting the environment. The plant is currently 5 years old and opened in April of 2006. It is the first wind farm to be built in New Jersey and the first coastal wind farm in the United States.

06/07/2011

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/offshore-wind-farm-approved-in-new-jersey/

Regulators in New Jersey on Friday awarded rights to build a huge offshore wind farm in the southern part of the state.

06/07/2011

New Jersey's wind power usage will increase substantially, however, as state regulators approved P.S.E.G.'s proposal to build 96 offshore turbines in the Atlantic Ocean that are located 16-20 miles off the coast. This is a large part of New Jersey's Energy Master Plan which hopes to have 20% of the states energy come from renewable resources by 2020.

06/07/2011

What is the wind profile power law?
The wind profile power law is simply the relationship between the wind speeds at one height and those at another. The equation is u/ur=(z/zr)^a. where u is the wind speed (in meters per second) at height z (in meters. ur is the known wind speed at a reference height zr. A is a derived coefficient which can vary depending on the stability of the atmosphere.

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How does New Jersey use wind power?
At this time, New Jersey does not use a large portion of wind power. New Jersey is 33rd in the country with about .03% of its energy coming from wind energy.

06/07/2011

How is wind power used in the United States?
The United States is the second largest user of wind power only behind China. 14 states have over 1,000 MW of wind capacity and 37 states have some sort of utility-scale wind turbines in them.
Texas uses the most wind power in the country and Iowa uses the second most.

06/07/2011

Thank you to Yonatan Frimer for this video.

06/07/2011

The use of wind power in the United States has risen significantly in the past 20 years.

06/07/2011

Why not to love wind power:

06/06/2011

4 Reasons to love wind power: