Efficient large-scale wind turbine deployment can meet global electricity generation needs

Affiliations

¹ Department of Wind Energy, DTU Risø Campus, Technical University of Denmark, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark jaba@dtu.dk.
² Department of Wind Energy, DTU Risø Campus, Technical University of Denmark, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark.

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Jake Badger et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.

. 2017 Oct 24;114(43):E8945.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1708350114. Epub 2017 Oct 12.

¹ Department of Wind Energy, DTU Risø Campus, Technical University of Denmark, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark jaba@dtu.dk.
² Department of Wind Energy, DTU Risø Campus, Technical University of Denmark, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Reply to Badger and Volker: Correctly estimating wind resources at large scales requires more than simple extrapolation.
Miller LM, Kleidon A. Miller LM, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Oct 24;114(43):E8946. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1713240114. Epub 2017 Oct 12. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 29073087 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Wind speed reductions by large-scale wind turbine deployments lower turbine efficiencies and set low generation limits.
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