User talk:WindPro

Mid-wind is a wind industry designation for wind turbines ranging in nameplate capacity from 100kW to 1MW. This range of turbines sits in between small-wind turbines with a nameplate capacity of under 100kW and large-wind turbines with a nameplate capacity over 1MW.

Typically, small-wind turbines are used in residential applications where the electrical load is small. Mid-wind turbines are used in commercial, institutional, educational and light industrial applications where the annual electrical load is under $250k. Large-wind turbines are most often used in land and sea based wind farm applications where the electricity generated is sold directly into the grid.

Both small-wind and mid-wind turbines are most often used in distributed generation applications where they are placed at the point of demand by a single customer who consumes the power they generate, often in a net metering arrangement with their local utility.

Mid-wind turbines exist in both traditional 3-blade, monopole designs as well as in the emerging Compact Wind Accelerating Turbine (CWAT) format. These CWAT units are typically shorter, narrower, and able to be sited in closer proximity to each other than traditional 3-blade turbines. In addition, CWATs integrate wind acceleration technologies into their designs, thereby allowing them to be economically sited in lower wind speed areas (typically down to Class 2) where traditional 3-blade designs are inefficeint. This technology advance opens significant new geographies to wind power and allows customers in lower wind speed markets to enjoy the full benefits of clean, renewable wind power.

WindPro (talk) 03:07, 15 September 2008 (UTC)