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Wind Talk: Is windpower being overestimated?

By Nic Sharpley | March 10, 2013

Welcome to another edition of Wind Talk, a Windpower Engineering and Development podcast series that gives you the opportunity to hear from industry newsmakers in their own words.

Wind TalkIn this podcast, David Keith, Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences discusses his latest research in mesoscale atmospheric modeling that was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters challenging the generating capacity of large-scale wind farms.

 

 


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Comments

  1. Michael Goggin, AWEA says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:51 am

    This study errs in its assessment of potential wind energy resources by ignoring real-world data and experience and instead relying on crude theoretical modeling techniques. In reality, wind project developers and investors work closely with atmospheric scientists and other experts to make sure that their projects will produce as much as expected, and real-world data from large-scale wind installations in the US and Europe confirms that they do. Regardless of who is correct, the inescapable fact is that America’s developable wind energy resources are many times greater than our country’s energy needs.

    For more, see:
    http://www.awea.org/blog/index.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1699=21714

    Michael Goggin,
    American Wind Energy Association

    • Nic Sharpley says

      March 15, 2013 at 1:54 pm

      Thanks for the great feedback Michael.

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