Wind Turbines On Public Display
A few localities have exploited the attention-getting nature of wind turbines by placing them on public display, either with visitor centers around their bases, or with viewing areas farther away. The wind turbines themselves are generally of conventional horizontal-axis, three-bladed design, and generate power to feed electrical grids, but they also serve the unconventional roles of technology demonstration, public relations, and education.
- Australia: Blayney Wind Farm, New South Wales has a viewing area and interpretive centre; Wattle Point Wind Farm, South Australia has an information centre
- Canada: OPG 7 commemorative turbine is a Vestas V80-1.8MW wind turbine on the site of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station; Toronto Hydro - WindShare features a Lagerwey Wind model LW 52 wind turbine at Exhibition Place
- China: Inner Mongolia's Huitengxile Wind Farm has 14 visitor centers to accommodate wind power tourists to the remote region
- Hong Kong: Lamma Winds has a single Nordex N50/800 kW model with a rotor diameter of 50m and a nameplate capacity of 800 kW
- New Zealand: Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand has a 230 kW wind turbine
- United Kingdom: Ecotech Centre, Swaffham, Norfolk; Green Park Business Park has an Enercon E-70 2 MW wind turbine adjacent to the M4 motorway, billed as the UK's most visible turbine; Renewable Energy Systems has a Vestas V29 225 kW wind turbine visible from the M25 motorway at its headquarters at Beaufort Court, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire; Scroby Sands wind farm has a visitor center at Great Yarmouth open during the tourist season (May–October); Scout Moor Wind Farm "has become a real tourist attraction" since its 2008 opening; Whitelee Wind Farm near Glasgow has become the first wind energy project in Scotland to join the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA).
- United States: Dorchester, Massachusetts - Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers installed the first commercial-scale wind turbine within the City of Boston, a 100 kW unit from Fuhrlaender on a 35-meter tower with rotor diameter of 21 meters, visible from the John F. Kennedy Library; The Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio has a reconditioned Vestas V27 wind turbine with a nameplate capacity of 225 kW; Great River Energy's headquarters in Maple Grove, Minnesota has a NEG Micon M700 wind turbine, visible from Interstate 94; Laurel, New York has a Northern Power Systems 100 kW turbine at the Half Hollow Nursery and private tours of the operating turbine are provided by Eastern Energy Systems Inc. of Mattituck, New York; Lubbock, Texas has a Vestas V47 at the American Wind Power Center; McKinney, Texas has a Wal-Mart store with several sustainability features, including two wind turbines manufactured by Bergey Windpower, of 1 kW and 50 kW nameplate capacity respectively; Sweetwater, Texas has a 2 MW 60 Hz DeWind D8.2 prototype wind turbine for training students in the Texas State Technical College wind energy program
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