wind park
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parque eólico
- Repeat this many times over—with wind parks and solar plants—and the whole shape of society changes.
Examples
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Cape Wind plans to build the first offshore wind park in the U.S. in Nantucket Sound.
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Also, please realize that with an average of 50% wind, the wind parks will sometimes generate 200% of demand and sometimes 0%.
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So the wind park investors raised hell and confronted the electricity company with liability suits.
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But this does not cover the transfer of the generated kWh from the offshore wind park to the grid on land.
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The country's first wind park in Mesihovina is due to start generating power in 2012, too.
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Germany is investing heavily in onshore and offshore wind parks as the country moves to increase its portion of energy derived from renewable sources.
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Due to the high costs of these transfer stations, the absurd situation arises now that a wind park stands there 'ready-to-go,' but the kWh cannot be transferred to the North German grid because the electricity company responsible for this does not have the money for this investment.
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The country's first wind park in Mesihovina is due to start generating power in 2012.
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Germany is investing heavily in onshore and offshore wind parks to increase renewable energy production.
Synonyms
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An area of land or sea with many tall machines that make electricity from wind
A place with tall machines that use wind to make electricity
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
wind + park
The meaning is compositionally derivable: 'wind' (air movement) + 'park' (a designated site or area) naturally yields a site associated with wind, i.e. where wind energy installations are located. This follows productive compounding patterns in English (cf. 'industrial park', 'solar park') and similar formations exist in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The compound wind park comes from the image of many wind turbines standing together like trees in a park. That's why it means 'a site where a group of wind turbines is used to generate electricity'.