wind farm

noun

: an area of land with a cluster of wind turbines for driving electrical generators

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Gunvor and peers Vitol and Trafigura have used those profits to acquire assets ranging from refineries and oil fields to power plants and wind farms. CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025 The plants are needed to store electricity generated by large solar and wind farms to release it back on the power grid at night when the sun isn’t shining, or the wind isn’t blowing. Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025 There were a lot of renewable-energy developers that had built out wind farms in this region because they were incentivized by tax credits, where they were actually getting paid to produce renewable energy and sell it independent of the real price. Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 Oct. 2025 As with offshore wind farms, environmentalists have raised concerns about the impacts of wave projects on marine life. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wind farm

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of wind farm was in 1980

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“Wind farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind%20farm. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.

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