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Press Release: Wind farm produces enough energy to to power 5000 homes. How do they arrive at that figure?

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DAVID O asked:


Since wind doesn’t blow all the time, obviously there are times when it’s supplying zero homes. So how do they get that figure that’s put out of 5000, 10000 or whatever? Potential maximum output 100% of the time?

GLEN

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4 Responses to “Press Release: Wind farm produces enough energy to to power 5000 homes. How do they arrive at that figure?”

  1. kun j on November 19th, 2008 7:56 pm

    They may be considering the average energy output

  2. burden.jackie on November 21st, 2008 3:25 pm

    because it not only powers that many but it has power cells that store energy for when there is no wind

  3. linlyons on November 23rd, 2008 7:54 am

    no.

    they calc how much the farm produces over a year, and how much is used by, maybe 1000 houses, over a year, and do the calculation.

    obviously, you’d like to call them wrong.
    on the other hand, around here, the wind generally comes up in the afternoon, exactly when demand peaks, so that the current produced is much more useful than the stated production.

  4. LTG on November 23rd, 2008 3:54 pm

    Wind does blow all the time, almost at no time is wind at 0 mphs on earth. Its effects at ground level differ but most windmills are 30 to 40 meters in the air where there are steady and reliable amounts of wind energy.

    The figure of house power is calculated by the average mega watts per hour usage of the average US home. That number is calculated into the average annual Mega watt hours produced by the wind turbine farm and thats where your estimated usage comes from.

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