Wind Turbines Operating near Maximum Capacity

From the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy:

Improved wind forecasts will ensure that wind turbines operate closer to maximum capacity, leading to lower#energy costs for consumers. Today, at the American Meteorological Society's 2015 annual conference, we announced new funding for Vaisala to research the complex processes that generate wind in mountain-valley regions. This work builds on the Energy Department’s Wind Forecast Improvement Project, which previously improved wind forecasting models for flat terrain in the northern Great Plains and western#Texas: http://go.usa.gov/t96B.