Topic

Wind power

Electricity generation from turbines driven by surface winds, whose output depends on the local wind resource and its variability.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

Oracle's 433MW Texas wind contract buys output from farms commissioned in 2008 and 2009

Oracle says ten wind projects will put more than 1.7GW onto the ERCOT grid for its Abilene campus. Only two of the agreements carry a megawatt figure, and the larger of them is a virtual PPA over three farms already operating.

Publishers:datacenterdynamics.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption46
Hype gap+34
Incentives82
Confidence60

science2 publishers

Radiative cooling and a falling Bowen ratio nearly cancel in a new global wind theory

Malte Jansen and colleagues derive the work that drives Earth's winds from two atmospheric quantities and find that warming's effects on them almost cancel, while the same simulations push storm tracks poleward.

Publishers:eos.orgphys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence60