how much power can one windmill generate?

Answer 1

This windmill can make about 8 or 9 volts AC per phase under a load of ...
Either one will burn out if you apply too much current from your wind generator! .

Answer 2

It depends upon the size of the blades and how many times a minute they rotate. If you've ever been to Palm Springs, CA and seen all those windmills up on the hills, you'd understand. From the interstate, they look small. But get up close and you will see how big they really are. The stands are 220 feet in height and the blades are about 70 feet long. The house on the top of the stand is as big as a Greyhound bus. The blades rotate slowly, but there are gears inside that turn a generator at a higher speed and that's where the juice is made.

Answer 3

Total Power output is usually expressed in Watts for DC devices and VA for AC devices. As the devices get big enough to produce thousands of these watts and VoltAmps, the terms are shortened to Kilowatts (KW) and KiloVoltAmperes (KVA).

Practical commercial wind generating systems have units which can generate up to 200 KVA on windy days. An array of 6 to 20 of those systems would produce several megawatts. Bigger units are available but hugely expensive and the payback is rather slow.

Power generation is not so much of a 'get the most you can' deal as it is one of 'how much do you want to spend' deal.

Also, lest we forget, wind power is only produced when the wind is blowing (more than 15 miles per hour). So... there are lots of days when there is not enough wind to produce significant power.

Answer 4

Now there's a plan i could flow for! placed a image voltaic panel grouping and windmill for each living house in u . s . of america and create power independence for all! The Feds could set up a provide application to spread the money round for those advancements.

Answer 5

The better way is to determine how much power u need and then design a generator big enough for u.

Answer 6

It depends on the wind and on the wind mill.

Some of the talk these days is for megawatt generation from one (very big, very expensive) machine.

Answer 7

it depends up on the flow of the wind and the capacity of the generator in the wind mill

Answer 8

FIRST YOU HAVE TO PLUG IT IN.