Energy

Onshore wind farm

Several aerogenerators connected together form the wind-farms, which are real electric plants.  A wind farm is based on a group of aeolian turbines, placed in the same area, interconnected by a middle-voltage linking net. This net gathers the energy created by each turbine, convoying it to a collection station. Here a transformer converts the middle-voltage electric energy in high-tension electric current, introducing it in the distribution system. A large wind farm may have dozens of aeolian generators and more than one hundred of single turbines, being placed on an area of several km2: however, being the space of each generator very little, all the places between the turbines could be used for agriculture or livestock holdings. United States of America currently own the most quantity of wind farms, followed by Germany, Spain and Denmark. Italy is on the fourth place; then we have the United Kingdom, Portugal, France and Ireland. World's largest wind farm onshore is placed in Roscoe, Texas. This plant owns 627 turbines with a power of 781 MW. The European largest plant is the new Glasgow (Scotland) farm, with 140 turbines, that will give their energy to 180.000 houses, with an effective power of 322 MW.