How to Use wind farm in a Sentence

wind farm

noun
  • The project, dubbed Ocean Wind, is the state's first large-scale offshore wind farm.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 July 2019
  • The tallest turbine on the wind farm Jackson works on is about 350 feet above the ground.
    — Morgan Smith, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The tallest turbine on the wind farm Jackson works on is about 350 feet above the ground.
    — Morgan Smith,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Most wind farm structures around the world are sunk into the ocean floor.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
  • This issue came to a head in the third and latest round of wind farm contracts.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
  • There is a large wind farm on the edge of the city, and solar is everywhere.
    — Chunka Mui, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Xcel Energy bought its first wind farm in the state in 2008.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • The largest offshore wind farm was approved off the coast of New Jersey.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 13 Apr. 2023
  • With 11 big turbines, the project is the second-largest wind farm in Alaska.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • One of the utilities in the merger had built the world’s first offshore wind farm.
    — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • The Lincolnshire port town is also home to the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
    — Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • These things came from China and they’re headed for a wind farm in the Mojave Desert.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Years after saving the bald eagle, 82 of them could be killed in NY wind farm projects.
    — USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Vineyard Wind is on track to be the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.
    — Jennifer McDermott, ajc, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Why not spend that same money on a solar or wind farm, which gets cheaper by the day?
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2022
  • There are solar and wind farms to build and new transmission lines to lay down.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Both the state and the developers are counting on the pier as the assembly point for more wind farms.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In the area of the wind farm, raptors were around four times less common than in other areas.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
  • And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout the area, wind farm turbines spun rapidly in the wind and blinding rain.
    — CBS News, 7 May 2024
  • But the cost of a new offshore wind farm or new solar farm would rise by roughly one-third.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Dug up to 8 feet into the ocean floor, the trenches mark the first ocean ground broken on a large-scale offshore wind farm.
    — Will Sennott, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The symmetrical white dots and shadows are the Robin Rigg wind farm.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The state turned on its first offshore wind farm at the end of the year but has struggled to get other offshore wind projects off the ground.
    — Nadja Popovich, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • And some birds are more sensitive to wind farms than others.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Plus the possibility of a full wind farm in the future.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
  • There are so many whiffs that baseball could get into the wind farm business.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2019
  • Other executive orders include steps to halt leasing of large wind farms, and boost oil and gas production.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Trump also issued a moratorium on new wind power projects on federal lands, pausing new leases and permits for both onshore and offshore wind farms.
    — Rachel Waldholz, NPR, 21 Jan. 2025

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