[mangeletti]

I'm no electrical engineer (could be doing the math wrong), but I think there is a pretty glaring error in this page:

The author mentions a 400 MW wind farm, and then says that correlates to 400,000 homes. Unless homes in Denmark use only 3% of what homes in the US use on average[1], that number should be somewhere closer to 15,000 homes.

1. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3

[maxerickson]

You have not accounted for the difference between power and energy. 909 kilowatt hours (energy) divided by a month (720 hours) is an average of about 1250 watts (power).

So 400 megawatts might only power 300,000 US homes, but the scale is about right.

[sebnukem2]

No, this is a correct figure. I think you are confusing power with energy. Also, the consumption of the average US home is a lot higher than in Europe.

[tomarr]

400 MW not 400 MWh. The power generated by the wind farm is enough to power 400,000 homes at peak. The link you provided talks about energy generated.

[jsingleton]

This would equate to a constant 1kW load per home which looks about right on the face of it. In fact that's probably a bit high.

[mangeletti]

Ah, thanks for all the replies.