Applications of Wind Energy
- Wind turbine generators have been built in a wide range of power outputs. Machines of low power can generate sufficient electricity for space heating and cooling of homes and for operating domestic appliances.
- Low power generators are used for corrosion protection of buried metal pipe lines. Higher power turbines upto 50 kW are used for operating irrigation pumps, navigational signals and remote communication relay and weather stations and for offshore oil drilling platforms.
- Aerogenerators in the range of 100 to 250 kW can supply electricity to isolated populations, to form co-operatives and to small industries. The largest WEC generators rated few thousand kilowatts are usually planned for interconnection with an electric utility system.