wind farm

noun

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

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And different districts have different types of energy projects — so as one district may have a solar or wind farm, another may have an electric vehicle battery plant. Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 10 Mar. 2025 On Wednesday, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced that the country would be investing in major renewable energy projects—developing new offshore wind farms and large scale clean energy bases that combine solar and wind farms. Simmone Shah, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025 In the mid-aughts, an entrepreneur named Michael Skelly conceived a plan to build a vast wind farm in the barren Oklahoma panhandle and sell the energy to the federal government’s Tennessee Valley Authority. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 For example, consider a wind farm operator managing hundreds of turbines. Shankar Narayanan, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 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 25 Mar. 2025.

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