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Wind power has the potential to provide affordable electrical power to anyone anywhere.Current systems require significant breakthrough to address performance, cost, and environmental issues.The purpose of this article is to review state-of-the-art technologies and present a discussion on which technology is more suited to bring wind power to its optimum benefits.A brief review of the wind power generation market, the basics of wind power generation, the technological advances,and summary and conclusions are presented.Wind power generation is controlled by two major factors: free stream wind speed and blade radius.These two design parameters have caused the tower height and blade sizes to be massive.In terms of manufacturing, logistics, installation, and maintenance challenges and costs, the height of the towers and size of the blades have reached their limits.Initially, wind energy was used to induce a function, such as moving boats using sail, cooling houses by circulating outside air, running machinery in farms, and even small production facilities.In late 1800s and early 1900s, conversion of wind energy to electrical power marked a turning point for the wind power generation industry.Due to energy crisis and changes in the political and social climates, wind turbines started to rapidly spread across the globe in the last 30 years.However, wind power is far from its full potential.Although manufacturers have incrementally improved conventional wind turbines, the cost of wind-generated power continues to exceed the cost of power generated by hydropower plants, coal and natural gas.Turbines are often subjected to excessive downtime, failure and repair costs are high.Moreover, complaints of harm to wildlife and human health continue to plague the industry.A recently developed technology, INVELOX solves all the major issues mentioned above giving it the potential to provide electrical power to anyone anywhere around the globe.