Study: Climate Change Could Worsen Prolonged Wind Droughts

Wind power: Study exposes renewable energy’s weak link

By OLIVIA MCPHERSON-SMITH | REAL CLEAR WIRE China is the world’s largest generator of wind power and a team of researchers at the heart of the global wind industry has just discovered an inconvenient truth: weather-dependent sources of electricity are a bad bet when the climate is changing. In an article published this week in […] The post Wind power: Study exposes renewable energy’s weak link appeared first on Must Read Alaska.

Study: Climate Change Could Worsen Prolonged Wind Droughts

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The Coming Wind Droughts

China is the world’s largest generator of wind power and a team of researchers at the heart of the global wind industry has just discovered an inconvenient truth: weather-dependent sources of electricity are a bad bet when the climate is changing. In an article published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, the Beijing and Shenzhen-based researchers find that around 20% of the globe’s wind turbines are located in areas that will becom…