The Beauty of Wind: Our 10 All-Time Favorite Photos of Wind Turbines

Whether you are fascinated by wind turbines and the wind industry or write it off as just outsized hobby for greenies or a government- financed boondoggle, you have to admit that the sheer scale of them is pretty amazing. Kudos to the photographers who shot the pictures of the wind turbines in this photo gallery.

Jim Lucy

March 3, 2015

Wind turbines have a certain raw industrial beauty about them. They stand as stark sentinels on land on at sea, with the most simple yet most complicated of tasks – reach hundreds of feet into the air where the birds fly to catch the sometimes fickle wind and turn it into electricity.

Whether you are fascinated by wind turbines and the wind industry or write it off as just outsized hobby for greenies or a government- financed boondoggle, you have to admit that the sheer scale of them is pretty amazing. Kudos to the photographers who took the pictures of some of them in this photo gallery.

About the Author

Jim Lucy

Editor-in-Chief

Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.

He recently launched a new subscription-based data product for Electrical Marketing that offers electrical sales potential estimates and related market data for more than 300 metropolitan areas, and in 1999 he published his first book, “The Electrical Marketer’s Survival Guide” for electrical industry executives looking for an overview of key market trends.

While managing Electrical Wholesaling’s editorial operations, Jim and the publication’s staff won several Jesse H. Neal awards for editorial excellence, the highest honor in the business press, and numerous national and regional awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. He has a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J. (now Rowan University).