How to Use wind farm in a Sentence

wind farm

noun
  • The tallest turbine on the wind farm Jackson works on is about 350 feet above the ground.
    Morgan Smith,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • One of the utilities in the merger had built the world’s first offshore wind farm.
    Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • 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
  • The state turned on its first offshore wind farm at the end of the year but has struggled to get other offshore wind projects off the ground.
    Nadja Popovich, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • In recent years, crews cleaning up an oil spill and building a wind farm have stayed there.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • 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
  • Ninety-nine per cent of wind farms are fixed to the sea floor in relatively shallow depths.
    Stephen Armstrong, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2024
  • That could be a problem for California, which will need federal approvals to deploy a huge fleet of offshore wind farms.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024

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