If you’re a wind industry advocate, as soon as you hear talk of wind speeds, even hurricane wind speeds, you think wind turbines.
NOAA Fisheries releases final acoustic guidance
Editor’s note: With the offshore wind industry just getting underway, it might be useful for developers to at least be aware of the NOAA guidance on noise and sea mammals. NOAA Fisheries has released final guidance to help predict how human-made underwater sounds affect marine mammal hearing. Sound is critical to the survival of marine…
Weather data from nation’s largest wind farms could improve U.S. models, forecasts
Private companies share weather data with NOAA Two of the nation’s largest producers of wind-generated electric power will share privately-collected weather data with NOAA, providing agency scientists with additional observations from wind farms across the nation for research and operations. NOAA now has data sharing agreements with Iberdrola Renewables of Portland, Ore., and NextEra Energy…
Study to detailed airflow through wind farm
To improve wind farm energy production, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) researchers are launching a study to make visible the invisible “wakes” produced behind wind turbines. Wind-farm designs have long known that wind turbine rotors generate ripples, waves, and other atmospheric disturbances downstream of turbines. “The turbulence can damage turbines downstream, and harm productivity,”…