How to Use wind farm in a Sentence

wind farm

noun
  • This issue came to a head in the third and latest round of wind farm contracts.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
  • There is a large wind farm on the edge of the city, and solar is everywhere.
    Chunka Mui, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The largest offshore wind farm was approved off the coast of New Jersey.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 13 Apr. 2023
  • With 11 big turbines, the project is the second-largest wind farm in Alaska.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The Lincolnshire port town is also home to the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Years after saving the bald eagle, 82 of them could be killed in NY wind farm projects.
    USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Vineyard Wind is on track to be the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.
    Jennifer McDermott, ajc, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Why not spend that same money on a solar or wind farm, which gets cheaper by the day?
    Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2022
  • There are solar and wind farms to build and new transmission lines to lay down.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Both the state and the developers are counting on the pier as the assembly point for more wind farms.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout the area, wind farm turbines spun rapidly in the wind and blinding rain.
    CBS News, 7 May 2024
  • But the cost of a new offshore wind farm or new solar farm would rise by roughly one-third.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Dug up to 8 feet into the ocean floor, the trenches mark the first ocean ground broken on a large-scale offshore wind farm.
    Will Sennott, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And some birds are more sensitive to wind farms than others.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Plus the possibility of a full wind farm in the future.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The first phase of Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, was completed at the end of last month.
    Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia.
    Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The wind farm would also limit how much Majd Al-Shams could grow.
    Popular Science, 26 July 2023
  • Two wind farms, to be built off the coast of Long Island, are scheduled to start operating in the next five years.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In 1992, the year of the Earth Summit, the world had exactly one offshore wind farm, called Vindeby.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • None of those wind farms would be located outside the Golden Gate.
    Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the country’s largest wind and solar farms are in the Texas flatlands outside the city, and a huge wind farm has been proposed off the coast of Galveston.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The nation’s first offshore wind farm opened off the coast of Rhode Island in December 2016.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
  • In Senegal, a few solar farms dot the interior, and a wind farm lies on the northern coast.
    Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2021
  • New York state, which is studying the feasibility of a Lake Erie wind farm.
    Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The company behind the Tiligul wind farm, located in the southern part of Ukraine, east of Odessa, was built largely on coal.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Labour has already moved quickly on promoting renewable energy in the UK, scrapping a de facto ban on onshore wind farms in the first few days of its government.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 July 2024
  • What about offshore wind turbines, which could help keep the lights on 24/7 by producing more consistently than onshore wind farms, and by staying strong into the evening, after solar panels stop producing?
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024

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