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The Future of Wind Metering
I'm surprised that we haven't got a couple of scientists up on those big stages with every wind meters measuring every corner. If they were able to measure what wind was going up up to years or a tourmalade, they would have another way to look at it. The guys who are making the estimates of power output are trying to account for wind now. So maybe where 15, 20 years ago, the accuracy of the measurements was 2% to 3%, now it's 1% to 2%. But you're right, it's one of the unknown elements. Definitely makes a difference.
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