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Advantages of Wind Power
• The wind is free and with modern technology it can be captured efficiently.
• Wind energy is friendly to the surrounding environment and generates no pollution, as no fossil fuels are burnt to generate electricity from wind energy. Wind energy is also a more permanent type of energy.
• Although wind turbines can be very tall, each takes up only a small plot of land. This means that the land below can still be used. This is especially the case in agricultural areas as farming can still continue.
• Many people find wind farms an interesting feature of the landscape.
• Remote areas that are not connected to the electricity power grid can use wind turbines to produce their own supply.
• Wind turbines are available in a range of sizes, which means that a vast range of people and business can use them. Single households to small towns and villages can make good use of range of wind turbines available today.
Wind turbines take up less space than the average power station. Windmills only have to occupy a few square meters from the base; this allows the land around the turbine to be used for many purposes, for example agriculture.
• Wind energy is renewable.
• It is getting cheaper and cheaper to produce wind energy, and it soon may be the cheapest way to produce energy on a large scale.
• Wind energy is ready available around the globe, and therefore there would be no need of dependence for energy for any country. Wind energy may be the answer to the globe’s question of energy in the face of rising petroleum and gas prices.
• Newer technologies are making the extraction of wind energy much more efficient.
• The wind is free, and we are able to cash in on this free source of energy. Wind turbines are a great resource to generate energy in remote locations, such as mountain communities and remote countryside.
• Wind turbines can be a range of different sizes in order to support varying population levels.
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