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Old 9th-May-2008, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Besoeker View Post
"Up to" suggests a maximum rather than an average.


They expect that it will produce more energy.

Of course that's what they say. 3 million kWh more than they need. The term "up to" means between a low point and up to a high point. The high point being more than they need. They are grid connected for obvious reason which they acknowledge. At the end of the day, they are feeding energy into the grid. ( up to 16 gWh per year ) for a category 3 wind site. The average annual wind speed, is historically based, which they would have some ideas about and be able to predict with X degree of certainty, over the longer term, using well established principles of meteorology.
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