A new report reveals that wind speeds are now excessively\nincreasing after three decades of slowdown. With average wind turbines\nproducing 17% of energy in 2017, the report found that current trends continued\nto 2024, wind turbines could generate 37% more power than they do today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The research, published in Nature and conducted by a team\nfrom Princeton University, has argued that changes in temperature and pressure\nin the world’s oceans and atmosphere are among other things determining wind\nspeeds on Earth. The faster the wind in the world, the more energy it\ngenerates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new study led by researchers at Princeton University found\nthat between 1978 and 2010, wind speeds dropped by about 2.3% per decade, but\nthings started to shift in 2010. Between 2010 and 2017, they increased by about\n7%. This means that the average wind power produced 17% more energy in 2017\nthan in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The findings, based on Monday’s report, were based on data\nanalysis of more than 1,400 meteorological stations in mid-latitude countries\nmainly in North America, Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scientists have argued that vegetation levels and\nurbanization are the main factors affecting land wind speeds. Researchers argue that wind speeds are\nactually driven by ocean and atmospheric oscillations, which in the simplest\nterms represent changes in temperature and pressure. Ocean oscillations have\nlong been cited as the decisive force for marine wind speed, but by comparing\nchanges in land wind speeds with well-documented ocean shifts, researchers have\nfound that ocean shifts can also be behind wind speeds on land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The results are valuable for the wind energy sector,\nespecially as wind speed trends tend to evolve over decades. The report said\nwind speeds “bodes well for the expansion of large-scale and efficient\nwind power generation systems” and found that if current trends continue,\nwind energy will increase by more than 37% in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The examination of ocean and atmospheric fluctuations can\nhelp companies predict future wind speeds and thus ” allow optimization of\nturbines for expected speeds during their productive life spans.” This is\nespecially true since the researchers noted that while wind speeds are expected\nto rise in the near term, in the long run they can reverse again and become\nslow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because these findings are relatively new, the researchers\nwere quick to note that wind patterns would have to be monitored in order to\nadvance their conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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