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@techreport{Green:2015,
author = {Green, RJ and Staffell, I},
booktitle = {Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK},
title = {Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK},
url = {http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technology-lords-committee/the-resilience-of-electricity-infrastructure/written/17905.pdf},
year = {2015}
}
TY - RPRT
AB - Onshore wind farms in the UK have aged at about the same rate as other kinds ofpower station. The average wind farm has an annual load factor of about 28% whenfirst commissioned, which declines by about 0.4 percentage points per year. After 15years, the load factor would have fallen to 23%. This ageing does not appear to havemade developers replace their farms early. Forty out of the first forty-five windfarms commissioned in the UK were still operating at this age; four had beenrepowered. Taking this deterioration into account raises the levelised cost ofelectricity by around 9% over a 24-year lifespan, discounting at 10 per cent a year.This is a summary of the peer-reviewed paper “How does wind farm performancedecline with age?” published in Renewable Energy, vol. 65, pp 775-786, which isavailable to download from http://tinyurl.com/wind-decline.
AU - Green,RJ
AU - Staffell,I
PY - 2015///
TI - Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK
T1 - Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK
UR - http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technology-lords-committee/the-resilience-of-electricity-infrastructure/written/17905.pdf
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/21174
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