Alaska Applied Sciences, Inc.700 kW wind power plant: Fourteen 50 kW wind turbines at Palm Springs, CA, in 2005 from net sce video Watch Video
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Description: 2005: Thirteen 50kW wind turbines in a row. The fourteenth is at an isolated, instrumented site beyond the row, and appears late in the video.nnThese are downwind, passive yaw, machines: wind direction is from the left.Blades are fiberglass, flexible enough to shed stochastic loads and to centrifugally-stiffen the 10 m diam rotor at normal running speed of ~ 130 rpm. This windplant operated at this site from May 2001 through May 2011, delivering electricity to the SCE grid. Each turbine produc