Journal
CLIMATIC CHANGE
Volume 115, Issue 3-4, Pages 837-852Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0486-5
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- EPSRC [EP/I035773/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I035773/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Partly in response to concerns about anthropogenic climate change, renewable energy production is growing rapidly in the United Kingdom (UK). The wind power industry takes advantage of the country having some of the highest mean wind speeds in Europe. Future climate change, however, has the potential to alter the characteristics of the UK wind climate. Small changes in mean wind speed could produce much greater changes in wind energy output as the power generated is related to the cube of wind speed. This paper aims to use a simple method to provide insight into projected future UK wind climate and how this might differ from current patterns. A discussion of the scale of the projected impacts on the wind energy industry follows.
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