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Windworks Windmill:
"The windmill from Kedco of Inglewood, California, was equipped with a synchronous inverter from Windworks of Mukwanago, Wisconsin, which embodies the latter’s new, much advanced in efficiency, electronic circuitry for converting the direct current inherently produced by the windmill into the 110-volt alternating current required by most electrical equipment.
Windwork’s new high sensitivity electrical meters permit them to feed their alternating current directly into the public utility’s power lines. When windpower-generated electricity is fed into batteries and that electric charge is later taken from the batteries for final light or power use, a loss of approximately 50 percent of the energy occurs. Feeding the unscheduled wind energy harvest directly into the power grid avoids this 50-percent, in-and-out storage loss. This innovation of windworks has now been accepted by the public utilities in 20 of the 50 United States. The utilities pay the local windmill owner at wholesale rates for the energy he puts into the system and charge him at retail rates for the energy he takes out. This increases the economic advantage of both the private windmill owner and the public utilities."
