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Right now #wind is meeting 15% of the National Grid's electricity demand. winderful.uk

Winderful

Right now #wind is meeting 15% of the National Grid's electricity demand. winderful.uk

Bruce MacDonald

"Wind farms produce energy, and that energy is extracted from the air. And the extraction of energy from the air comes with a reduction of the wind speed," says Peter Baas, a research scientist at Whiffle, a Dutch company specialising in renewable energy and weather forecasting. The wind is slower behind each turbine within the wind farm than in front of it, and also behind the wind farm as a whole, compared with in front of it, he explains. "This is called the wake effect."
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