Study also finds turbines arranged in rows facing wind produce 50% more power than those arranged in wind-facing columns
It’s always good to see wind turbines going at full tilt on a breezy day. But are more wind turbines always a good thing?
Windfarms come in all shapes and sizes, from one lonely turbine producing energy for a farm, to Gansu windfarm in China, whose 7,000 wind turbines make it the largest windfarm in the world. However, extracting energy from the wind is not straightforward, and new research reveals that there is an optimal size for windfarms.