Sentences with phrase «turbine load factor»
Which is why it's worth checking out this interview with Robert Llewellyn (of cult BBC sitcom Red Dwarf fame), in which Dale busts some myths about wind turbine load factor, the UK's wind generating capacity, and explains how Ecotricity got started.
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The report's author, Prof Gordon Hughes, an economist at Edinburgh University and a former energy adviser to the World Bank, discovered that the «load factor» — the efficiency rating of a turbine based on the percentage of electricity it actually produces compared with its theoretical maximum — is reduced from 24 per cent in the first 12 months of operation to just 11 per cent after 15 years.
The load factor for turbines built on platforms in the sea is reduced from 39 per cent to 15 per cent after 10 years.