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Default As gales sweep the UK, 2/3rds of wind farms shut down..

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 05:16:33 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Its the gusting they seem not to be able to cope with. its amazing how a
thing so simple is hard to optimise for the real conditions.


The optimum conditions for all wind turbines seems be a windspeed of
between 9.999 and 10.001mph... at the period of lowest system demand.


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