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Modern wind turbines can angle their wings in a way that they can produce in conditions that would have required a shutdown 15 years ago. With this storm contr
by dubbel 7y ago
Modern wind turbines can angle their wings in a way that they can produce in conditions that would have required a shutdown 15 years ago.
With this storm control the turbines lineally increase the resistance and are only shut down when the wind speed reaches more than 34 m/s as a 10 minute average. That's 122km/h. [0]
The recent storm reached these levels at times, but didn't sustain them for longer periods over larger areas.
[0] https://www.enercon.de/en/technology/wec-features/ https://www.enercon.de/en/technology/wec-features/ I'm sure other producers have similar technology.
- 2zcon 7y agoDo you know a rough percentage for how many wind-turbines in use are modern turbines like these?