Meso-micro feedback effects in large wind farms and wind-farm clusters KU Leuven
Wind energy is growing into Europe’s most important green energy source, with a lot of offshore development foreseen in the North Sea. Wind farms and turbines keep growing in size: recent offshore tenders in Borselle (NL) surpass the GW size, while the largest turbine to date has a rated power of 8MW and tip height of 190m. It is well known that wind farms at these scales interact with the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) through the ...