The following are definitions from the Glossary of Wind Energy Terms written by Paul Gipe and Bill Canter published in 1997 by Forlaget Vistoft.[1]
I am reproducing this section here because of a recent incorrect usage of the term “wind park” by a colleague.
Wind park: See Wind power plant. Incorrect colloquial usage. In American and British English “park” connotes recreational enclaves or sylvan settings publicly protected from development. Arrays or clusters of multiple wind turbines are more correctly described as wind power plants. During the 1970s utilities in North America envisioned building “energy parks” of multiple nuclear reactors. Propagandists for the utilities deliberately chose the term “parks” to mislead public debate. Continued use of the term “wind park” by the wind industry may be construed as a similar attempt to deceive the public.
Wind plant: See Wind power plant, see also Wind turbine. In both American and European usage the term can mean individual wind turbine. In North America Marcellus Jacobs used the term to describe individual wind turbines during the 1930s and again during the 1970s.
WindplantTM: KENETECH Windpower trademark for a wind power plant built by the Livermore, California manufacturer.
Wind power plant: Array of multiple wind turbines in one locale operated as one entity, much like the multiple steam turbines at a typical coal-fired power plant. Any cluster of wind turbines used for the bulk generation of electricity.
Wind power station: Electric Power Research Institute (U.S.) description of wind power plant.
[1] Paul Gipe and Bill Canter, 1997 Glossary of Wind Energy Terms (Vrinners Hoved, Denmark: Forlaget Vistoft, 1997).
