Wind turbine placement to optimize wind power generation for a given area

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Although wind power energy production in 2010 was estimated to be only about 2.5 percent of worldwide electricity usage, wind turbines are considered a mature technology with many experts suggesting that we’re approaching the theoretical limit of individual wind turbine efficiency. For this reason, researchers are now looking at new approaches to wind farm design to increase the power output of wind farms. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been conducting a field study and claim the power output of wind farms can be increased at least tenfold by optimizing the placement of turbines on a given plot of land... Continue Reading Wind turbine placement to optimize wind power generation for a given area

Section: ecoGizmo

Tags: Caltech, Wind Power, Wind turbine

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