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Modern wind turbine
generators are robust, sophisticated high-tech
machines designed to convert the power of the
wind into electricity.
Main Components:
The tower, the nacelle (machine house atop the tower),
and the rotor
Height of Flat Rock Wind
Turbine Towers: 260 feet
Rotor Blade Length: 130 feet
Rotor Blade Speed: 14
RPM (revolutions per minute)
How Electricity Leaves
the Turbine and Brings Us Power: Electricity
from each 1.65 MW wind turbine generator is fed through
numerous 34.5-kilovolt power underground cables that
come together at the wind farm substation near Rector
Road. These cables channel the electricity via a step-up
transformer and dedicated ten-mile power line into the
New York electricity grid at the 230-kilovolt Niagara
Mohawk Adirondack line, feeding power to towns and cities
across New York's North Country and beyond. Sophisticated
computer control systems run constantly to ensure that
the machines are operating efficiently and safely.
Pollution Offset: The American Wind Energy Association estimates
that 1 MW of wind generation capacity is the equivalent
of 1 square mile of new forest, in terms of offsetting
or displacing carbon dioxide from conventional generating
sources.
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