wind farm

noun

: an area of land with a cluster of wind turbines for driving electrical generators

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Creating conservation corridors Conservationists are pushing for more strategic use of the authority under the Antiquities Act as developers look to build more solar and wind farms and mine for lithium and other minerals required for a green energy transition. Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024 Nuclear power plants have increasingly been seen as a carbon pollution-free source of electricity that can fill in for solar and wind farms when the sun sets and gales weaken. Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024 Managing hundreds of wind farms, new store openings around the globe, thousands of drug trials or the deployment of diagnostic equipment in hospitals are examples of managing work at scale. Praerit Garg, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 The allowing of non-planned transmission being reimbursed or credited outside of a planning process … just incentivizes merchants to build transmission lines to nowhere and then charge it to the ratepayers that live someplace between nowhere and a wind farm. Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 18 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wind farm 

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of wind farm was in 1980

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“Wind farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind%20farm. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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