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Rotlam t1_jaxj0yu wrote

Reply to comment by Barra79 in [OC] Wind Speed Vs Wind Power by Barra79

Oh sure. My intuition is that wind speeds below the line of best fit (in the area of 2.5 GW from 5 km/h to 15 km/h) are below the line of best fit because the fan blades were slower (or zero) and don't operate well at low speeds.

Meanwhile the power generation of about 20 GW and ~14GW between 10 and 20 km/h might be because they had slowed down from a previous high point.

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Barra79 OP t1_jaxrggl wrote

Yeah the wind turbines dont produce electricity until they reach their cut in speed which is around 15 to 20km/h I believe. Then they have a max output, somewhere around 55km/h. They also need to park at high wind speeds or risk getting damaged. You can see this more clearly here: https://imgur.com/a/GNR2M9c

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sploogmcduck t1_jazzr3b wrote

This would mean a single fit is innappropriate to describe the data.

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