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    Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into electrical or mechanical energy through the use of wind turbines or windmills. Large wind farms consist of hundreds of turbines connected to electrical grids, and provide a low-cost source of electricity. Offshore wind farms have higher installation costs but provide wind that is stronger and more consistent than on land. While wind power has less environmental impact than fossil fuels and produces no emissions, integrating large amounts of wind power into electrical grids requires upgrades and management of variations in production.

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    Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into electrical or mechanical energy through the use of wind turbines or windmills. Large wind farms consist of hundreds of turbines connected to electrical grids, and provide a low-cost source of electricity. Offshore wind farms have higher installation costs but provide wind that is stronger and more consistent than on land. While wind power has less environmental impact than fossil fuels and produces no emissions, integrating large amounts of wind power into electrical grids requires upgrades and management of variations in production.

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    Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into electrical or mechanical energy through the use of wind turbines or windmills. Large wind farms consist of hundreds of turbines connected to electrical grids, and provide a low-cost source of electricity. Offshore wind farms have higher installation costs but provide wind that is stronger and more consistent than on land. While wind power has less environmental impact than fossil fuels and produces no emissions, integrating large amounts of wind power into electrical grids requires upgrades and management of variations in production.

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    Wind Power Is The Conversion Of: Citation Needed

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    Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into electrical or mechanical energy through the use of wind turbines or windmills. Large wind farms consist of hundreds of turbines connected to electrical grids, and provide a low-cost source of electricity. Offshore wind farms have higher installation costs but provide wind that is stronger and more consistent than on land. While wind power has less environmental impact than fossil fuels and produces no emissions, integrating large amounts of wind power into electrical grids requires upgrades and management of variations in production.

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    Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make

    electrical power, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships. Large wind farms consist of hundreds of individual wind turbines which are connected to the electric power transmission network. For new constructions, onshore wind is an inexpensive source of electricity, competitive with or in many places cheaper than fossil fuel plants.[1][citation needed] Small onshore wind farms provide electricity to isolated locations. Utility companies increasingly buy surplus electricity produced by small domestic wind turbines.[2]Offshore wind is steadier and stronger than on land, and offshore farms have less visual impact, but construction and maintenance costs are considerably higher. Wind power, as an alternative to fossil fuels, is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, produces no greenhouse gas emissions during operation and uses little land.[3] The effects on the environment are generally less problematic than those from other power sources. As of 2011, Denmark is generating more than a quarter of its electricity from wind and 83 countries around the world are using wind power to supply the electricity grid.[4] In 2010 wind energy production was over 2.5% of total worldwide electricity usage, and growing rapidly at more than 25% per annum. Wind power is very consistent from year to year but has significant variation over shorter time scales. As the proportion of windpower in a region increases, a need to upgrade the grid, and a lowered ability to supplant conventional production can occur. [5][6] Power management techniques such as having excess capacity storage, geographically distributed turbines, dispatchable backing sources, storage such as pumped-storage hydroelectricity, exporting and importing power to neighboring areas or reducing demand when wind production is low, can greatly mitigate these problems.[7] In addition,weather forecasting permits the electricity network to be readied for the predictable variations in production that occur

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