How to Use wind farm in a Sentence

wind farm

noun
  • This issue came to a head in the third and latest round of wind farm contracts.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
  • The largest offshore wind farm was approved off the coast of New Jersey.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 13 Apr. 2023
  • With 11 big turbines, the project is the second-largest wind farm in Alaska.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Years after saving the bald eagle, 82 of them could be killed in NY wind farm projects.
    USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Vineyard Wind is on track to be the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.
    Jennifer McDermott, ajc, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Why not spend that same money on a solar or wind farm, which gets cheaper by the day?
    Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2022
  • There are solar and wind farms to build and new transmission lines to lay down.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Both the state and the developers are counting on the pier as the assembly point for more wind farms.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But the cost of a new offshore wind farm or new solar farm would rise by roughly one-third.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Dug up to 8 feet into the ocean floor, the trenches mark the first ocean ground broken on a large-scale offshore wind farm.
    Will Sennott, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And some birds are more sensitive to wind farms than others.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Plus the possibility of a full wind farm in the future.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The first phase of Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, was completed at the end of last month.
    Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia.
    Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The wind farm would also limit how much Majd Al-Shams could grow.
    Popular Science, 26 July 2023
  • Two wind farms, to be built off the coast of Long Island, are scheduled to start operating in the next five years.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In 1992, the year of the Earth Summit, the world had exactly one offshore wind farm, called Vindeby.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • None of those wind farms would be located outside the Golden Gate.
    Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the country’s largest wind and solar farms are in the Texas flatlands outside the city, and a huge wind farm has been proposed off the coast of Galveston.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • New York state, which is studying the feasibility of a Lake Erie wind farm.
    Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The company behind the Tiligul wind farm, located in the southern part of Ukraine, east of Odessa, was built largely on coal.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But Rhode Island took the lead by building the first offshore wind farm in the United States several years ago.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • At the site of a new wind farm close to the world’s largest open-pit gold mine, workers were in the process of installing a fourth turbine recently, and there were at least 107 more to go.
    Max Bearak Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • And as the Times reports, Lauder hosted Hochul for dinner a year ago and brought up the wind farm, which Hochul has supported and broke ground on.
    Curbed, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Offshore wind farms should be one of the best solutions to the climate crisis but are turning out to be a lousy business.
    Carol Ryan, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The world’s first recyclable wind turbine blades are spinning at a German wind farm.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2022
  • What if the sparring factions couldn’t agree on the best spots to build solar and wind farms, and instead wasted years arguing?
    Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
  • Unlike most offshore wind farms in Europe and other parts of the world, the turbines will be floating rather than built into the sea floor.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Rhode Island was the first state in the nation with an offshore wind farm with the five-turbine Block Island demonstration project.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023

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