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If you read the papers or keep on top of alternative energy news I’m sure that you have seen at least one article, if not many, in the past months about wind farms and/or wind turbine technology being installed in residential applications or in large scale power generation projects.  Either way, wind turbines are rapidly being installed in many parts of the world to generate clean electricity.  Let’s take a look at the basic principles of Wind Turbines and how they work.

Overview

Wind Turbines make use of the kinetic energy contained within the wind itself to turn a propeller of some kind (there are many different styles) which then turns a generator to create electricity.  Electricity created by a wind turbine is typically Direct Current (DC) electricity and is either used to charge batteries and then converted, via an inverter, into Alternating Current (AC) electricity for operation of appliances within a home or business or it is sent directly to an inverter to generate AC electricity for immediate use with no backup storage.