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Actuator disk model
The actuator disk model represents a wind turbine or propeller rotor as an infinitely thin, permeable disk that imposes a pressure jump on the flow, yielding the Betz limit.
Airborne wind energy
Airborne wind energy (AWE), also known as kite power or high-altitude wind energy, uses tethered kites, aircraft, or aerostats to generate electricity from winds far above the reach of tower-mounted turbines.
Albatros (offshore wind farm)
Albatros is a 112 MW offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, built by EnBW with 16 Siemens Gamesa turbines and fully commissioned in January 2020.
alpha ventus
alpha ventus is Germany's first offshore wind farm, a 60 MW test field of twelve 5 MW turbines about 45 km north of Borkum in the North Sea.
Alta Wind Energy Center
The Alta Wind Energy Center is a complex of wind farms in Tehachapi Pass, California, and the largest wind power site in the United States.
Amazon Wind Farm US East
Amazon Wind Farm US East, also known as Desert Wind, is a 208 MW wind farm in northeastern North Carolina operated by Avangrid Renewables for Amazon Web Services.
American Clean Power Association
The American Clean Power Association (ACP) is a United States trade association for utility-scale wind, solar, storage, and transmission companies, formed in 2021 and led by CEO Jason Grumet.
Asian Renewable Energy Hub wind farm
The Asian Renewable Energy Hub is a proposed 26 GW wind and solar project in East Pilbara, Western Australia, intended to produce green hydrogen and ammonia for export.
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind is a proposed offshore wind farm off New Jersey, a joint venture of EDF Renewables and Shell, with its South project federally approved in 2024.
Attentive Energy
Attentive Energy was an offshore wind project off New Jersey and New York won by TotalEnergies in 2022 and canceled by the Interior Department in 2026.
Awel y Môr
Awel y Môr is a consented offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea off north Wales, planned as an extension to Gwynt y Môr with up to 50 turbines.
Baltic 1 Offshore Wind Farm
Baltic 1 Offshore Wind Farm is Germany's first commercial offshore wind farm, 21 Siemens turbines totaling 48.3 MW in the Baltic Sea off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, commissioned in 2011.
Baltic Eagle
Baltic Eagle is a 476 MW offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, northeast of Rügen, developed by Iberdrola and Masdar and fully operational in 2025.
Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm
Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm is a 588 MW offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland, with 84 Siemens Gamesa turbines, fully operational since June 2019.
Blackstone wind farm
Blackstone wind farm, operating as Top Crop Wind Farm I, is a 102 MW onshore wind farm near Blackstone, Illinois, with 68 GE turbines online since 2009.
Blade pitch control
Blade pitch control is the mechanism a wind turbine uses to rotate its rotor blades about their long axes, regulating aerodynamic power, rotor speed, and structural loads.
Block Island Wind Farm
The Block Island Wind Farm is a 30-megawatt offshore wind farm of five turbines off Block Island, Rhode Island, and the first offshore wind farm in the United States, operating since December 2016.
Cà Mau wind farm
The Cà Mau wind farm, also called Ca Mau 1, is a 350 MW intertidal wind power complex of four plants in Cà Mau Province, at Vietnam's southern tip.
Chokecherry And Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project
The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project is a proposed wind power complex of up to 1,000 turbines south of Rawlins, Wyoming, designed to generate 3,000 megawatts.
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, developed by Dominion Energy, is a 2.6-gigawatt wind farm under construction about 27 miles off Virginia Beach, the largest offshore wind project in the United States.
Community Offshore Wind
Community Offshore Wind was a US offshore wind joint venture of RWE and National Grid Ventures holding lease OCS-A 0539 in the New York Bight, canceled in 2026.
Curtailment of wind power
Curtailment of wind power is the deliberate reduction of a wind plant's output below achievable generation, ordered by the grid operator during oversupply or transmission congestion.
Dale Vince
Dale Vince, born in Great Yarmouth in 1961, is a British green energy entrepreneur who founded Ecotricity, the world's first green electricity supplier, and chairs Forest Green Rovers.
DEME
DEME, formally DEME Group NV, is a Belgian marine engineering and dredging contractor with about 6,000 employees that provides dredging, offshore wind installation, and environmental services worldwide.
Direct-drive wind turbine
A direct-drive wind turbine is a wind turbine whose generator is coupled directly to the rotor hub without a gearbox, improving reliability but requiring a larger, low-speed generator.
Dogger Bank South
Dogger Bank South is a pair of offshore wind farms in the North Sea, developed by RWE and Masdar, with 3 GW combined capacity and consent granted in 2026.
Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Dogger Bank Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm under construction 130 to 190 km off England's coast, intended to become the world's largest at 3.6 GW.
Doubly-fed induction generator
The doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) is a wind turbine generator whose rotor is fed through a partially rated converter, allowing variable-speed operation at low converter cost.
Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm
The Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm is a 402 MW wind farm in the North Sea off Norfolk, England, opened in 2017 and operated by Equinor.
Dynamic wake meandering
Dynamic wake meandering (DWM) is a mid-fidelity engineering wake model developed at the Technical University of Denmark that treats a turbine wake deficit as a passive tracer carried by large-scale turbulence.