The workings of a wind turbine are much different, except that instead of using a fossil fuel heat to boil water and generate steam, the wind is used to directly spin the turbine blades to get the generator turning and to get electricity produced.
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However, it has been demonstrated that wind turbines can meet our energy needs even without wind through a combination of energy storage, grid integration, low wind technology, hybrid systems, and predictive analytics.
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These cover various use-cases and scales of projects to provide real-world examples to assist other cooperatives and rural utilities who are considering distributed wind as a resource, either on its own or in combination with other distributed energy resources.
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When wind flows across the blade, the air pressure on one side of the blade decreases. The force of the lift is stronger than the drag and this causes the rotor to spin.
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