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Wouldn't there be enough turbines packed in such a small area that they would 'wind shadow' each other?
by Ono-Sendai 10y ago
Wouldn't there be enough turbines packed in such a small area that they would 'wind shadow' each other?
- cr1895 10y agoWhile it looks like there will be turbines on/around this island hub, it's primarily a hub for distributing power from geographically disparate wind farms to North Sea countries. The island itself isn't so much for localized generation. Turbine spacing would in any case be no different from other offshore wind farms. There's a lot of interesting CFD modeling that goes into optimizing wind farm layout given the prevailing atmospheric conditions. Rule-of-thumb though is 7-10 rotor diameters between turbines to limit the shadow effect.
- nraynaud 10y agoSeparate them from 10 times their diameter. You also avoid aligning the array in the dominant wind. Before working in the industry I had never realized it but wind turbines mostly produce in one direction, in the other directions the wind tend to be at the wrong speed.