How does wind farm performance decline with age?

Iain Staffell and Richard Green
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Renewable Energy, 2014, vol. 66, issue C, 775-786

Abstract: Ageing is a fact of life. Just as with conventional forms of power generation, the energy produced by a wind farm gradually decreases over its lifetime, perhaps due to falling availability, aerodynamic performance or conversion efficiency. Understanding these factors is however complicated by the highly variable availability of the wind.

Keywords: Wind farm; Load factor; Degradation; Ageing; Reanalysis; Levelised cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.10.041

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