Ecobuild Emirates » largest http://www.ecobuildemirates.com Greener Living one house at a time! Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:51:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Largest Wind Power? http://www.ecobuildemirates.com/largest-wind-power.html http://www.ecobuildemirates.com/largest-wind-power.html#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:10:07 +0000 Adam Diver http://www.ecobuildemirates.com/?p=112 Whilst wind power has been around for a while it is only recently getting some mainstream funding to test the limits. So lets look at the records for all the largest wind power categories.

Largest Wind Power Turbine

This record goes to the Enercon E-126 Turbine. The turbine is located in Emden, Germany and has comes with some pretty impressive numbers. The diameter of the blades is 126M (416 feet) and it can produce 6+ megawatts (enough to power 5000 homes).

Largest Wind Power Farm

Horse Hollow in Texas, USA is currently the worlds largest wind farm. The farm has 421 turbines spread over 47,000 acres of land which generate a total capacity of 735 megawatts.

Largest Wind Power Producer (Gross production)

Surprisingly the world’s biggest polluter is also the largest producer of wind power. The US produced (in 2008) 25.2 gigawatts of wind powered electricity which is roughly 20.8% of the worlds total output.

Largest Wind Power Producer (% of overall production)

The pioneers of wind power so far, Denmark produces over 20% of its energy needs from wind farms. Spain is a distant second with around 15% of its power provided by wind turbines.

There you go a few surprises there when it comes to, Largest Wind Power.

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