Wind power plants, or wind farms as they are sometimes called, are clusters of wind machines used to produce electricity. A wind farm usually has dozens of wind machines scattered over a large area. The world's largest wind farm, the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Texas, has 421 wind turbines that generate enough electricity to power 220,000 homes per year.

Unlike power plants, many wind plants are not owned by public utility companies. Instead they are owned and operated by business people who sell the electricity produced on the wind farm to electric utilities. These private companies are known as Independent Power Producers.

Operating a wind power plant is not as simple as just building a windmill in a windy place. Wind plant owners must carefully plan where to locate their machines. One important thing to consider is how fast and how much the wind blows.

As a rule, wind speed increases with altitude and over open areas with no windbreaks. Good sites for wind plants are the tops of smooth, rounded hills, open plains or shorelines, and mountain gaps that produce wind funneling.

In 2006 / 2007 and 2008, on an average, wind machines in the United States generated a total of 26.6 billion kWh per year of electricity, enough to serve more than 2.4 million households. This is enough electricity to power a city larger than Los Angeles, but it is only a small fraction of the nation's total electricity production, about 0.4 percent. The amount of electricity generated from wind has been growing fast in recent years. In 2006, electricity generated from wind was 2 1/2 times more than wind generation in 2002.

New technologies have decreased the cost of producing electricity from wind, and growth in wind power has been encouraged by tax breaks for renewable energy and green pricing programs. Many utilities around the country offer green pricing options that allow customers the choice to pay more for electricity that comes from renewable sources.

Wind machines generate electricity in 28 different states in 2006. The states with the most wind production are Texas, California, Iowa, Minnesota, and Oklahoma.

However, new programs are available for:
      a) Small individual locations to have 100KW wind power units
      b) Even smaller units are available for 25 KW and lower units

We presently interact with customers who are interested in setting individual systems and want to sell back to utility boards after their usage from 100KW or such systems in multiple.

For eligible organizations, we also work on to get you Grant Funding either from Federal Government or State Government and for Non Profit Organization from prominent charitable funding agencies.

We invite Country based Consultants also to discuss any such possibility of setting up large Wind Farms in their country as well, funding can be discussed, if right Power Purcahse Agreement is signed with any Utility Boards.

Prior to that, let us briefly have a your details and thereafter you may call us on 888-236-9635 or 212-655-5432 or fax us details on 888-249-7459 or 212-937-4617 or e mail on : projectfunding@globalenergycollaborations.com [Do not send e mails without project profiles and organization briefs and full contact details and amount of fund desired and indication of Promoters basic investment]