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In 2002 the 160 MW Horns Rev 1 in Denmark was the biggest offshore farm on Earth. Records then passed between Danish, British and German projects unti...
Floating Wind: The Deep Water FrontierFixed foundations work only to about 60 meters of depth, which locks floating machines out of most of the offshore wind resource. Hywind Scotland prov...
Onshore Giants: The Wind Corridors of the WorldThe biggest onshore clusters sit where geography squeezes wind: the Gansu corridor in China hosts about 8 GW in one development zone, Tehachapi and Al...
How Turbines Grew From 2 MW to 15 MWThe first offshore farms used 2 MW machines barely taller than church steeples. Horns Rev 3 raised the bar with 8.3 MW, Hornsea Two installed 8 MW uni...
What Happens When the Wind Does Not BlowWind farms deliver power when weather decides, so grids manage the variability with a stack of tools: forecasting that predicts output hours to days a...
Repowering: Second Lives for Old Wind FarmsThe best wind sites were developed first, so thousands of 1990s and 2000s farms now face a choice: keep old small turbines running or replace them. Re...