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ProfessorRichardGreen

Business School

Head of the Department of Economics and Public Policy
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2611r.green Website CV

 
 
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Location

 

415City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@techreport{Green:2015,
author = {Green, RJ and Staffell, I},
booktitle = {Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK},
title = {Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK},
url = {http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technology-lords-committee/the-resilience-of-electricity-infrastructure/written/17905.pdf},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - RPRT
AB  - Onshore wind farms in the UK have aged at about the same rate as other kinds ofpower station. The average wind farm has an annual load factor of about 28% whenfirst commissioned, which declines by about 0.4 percentage points per year. After 15years, the load factor would have fallen to 23%. This ageing does not appear to havemade developers replace their farms early. Forty out of the first forty-five windfarms commissioned in the UK were still operating at this age; four had beenrepowered. Taking this deterioration into account raises the levelised cost ofelectricity by around 9% over a 24-year lifespan, discounting at 10 per cent a year.This is a summary of the peer-reviewed paper “How does wind farm performancedecline with age?” published in Renewable Energy, vol. 65, pp 775-786, which isavailable to download from http://tinyurl.com/wind-decline.
AU  - Green,RJ
AU  - Staffell,I
PY  - 2015///
TI  - Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK
T1  - Evidence on Wind Farm Performance Decline in the UK
UR  - http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technology-lords-committee/the-resilience-of-electricity-infrastructure/written/17905.pdf
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/21174
ER  -
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