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Wind Farms' Climate Impact Recorded for First Time

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CDT supervisor, Prof Stephen Mobbs, and his colleagues have been able to measure the climatic effect of a wind farm on the local environment for the first time. They focused on Black Law wind farm, Scotland, which has been operating since 2005. With 54 turbines and a generation capacity of 124 megawatts, it is one of the UK's largest arrays of onshore turbines.

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Read their paper 'Ground-level climate at a peatland wind farm in Scotland is affected by wind turbine operation'.