‘Wake Effects’ Cost Downwind Wind Farm Millions in Reduced Electricity Production

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By info@greentechmedia.comDec 7, 2018, 6:27 am270 pts
Wind farms turn out not to be the best neighbors — for downwind wind farms. A study published last month in Nature Energy found that wind speed reductions resulting from wake effects caused by an upwind wind farm reduced electricity generation at a downwind wind farm by 5 percent over a six-year period. The…

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