November 28, 2006
Economics, General, Grid

Energy Consumption of Wind Facilities

Rosenbloom, Eric

Large wind turbines require a large amount of energy to operate. Other electricity plants generally use their own electricity, and the difference between the amount they generate and the amount delivered to the grid is readily determined. Wind plants, however, use electricity from the grid, which does not appear to be accounted for in their output figures …

This is a copy of an AWEO web page [1].

Download original document: “Energy Consumption of Wind Facilities [2]


URL to article:  https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/energy-consumption-of-wind-facilities/


URLs in this post:

[1] AWEO web page: http://www.aweo.org/windconsumption.html

[2] Energy Consumption of Wind Facilities: https://docs.wind-watch.org/energy-consumption-by-wind-facilities.pdf