IEA Wind Task 41 is an international group of researchers from numerous member countries and associations dedicated to advancing wind technology as a cost-effective and reliable distributed energy resource.

What is distributed wind, you might ask? Wind technology, of any size, can be a distributed energy resource. Distributed wind systems are often used to generate electricity for remote communities or offset a portion of energy costs for grid-connected customers. As a result, distributed wind systems can be part of an isolated grid or a grid-connected microgrid, or they can be connected at the distribution voltage level of a grid system as either behind-the-meter for self-consumption or on the distribution grid to serve local loads.

Images in this Flickr gallery constitute examples of various kinds of distributed wind systems. Please email us your distributed wind pictures: distributed.wind.gallery@nrel.gov.