Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Otmane El Rhazi : West Coast wind patterns lead to below-normal wind generation capacity factors

Otmane El Rhazi from Today in Energy.

A drop in average wind speeds in the western United States during early 2015 led to reduced generation from wind plants in California, Oregon, and Washington. As a result, wind plant utilization rates, also known as plant capacity factors, were consistently below the previous five-year average during the first five months of 2015, according to the latest data available.

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