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European Wind Operators Face Wind Drought While Solar Power Production Rises

August 14, 2018

The current heatwave in Western Europe is also contributing to a ‘wind drought,’ negatively impacting wind farm operators across the region, which includes the U.K., France, Spain, Germany and much of Scandinavia. Meanwhile, solar power plant operators are seeing increased production of solar energy because irradiance is up in many of the same markets.

This is according to wind and solar performance maps of Europe by Vaisala, a company that collects and analyzes weather-related data globally.

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