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UPR joins wind farm research team
By : The Associated Press
Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico will join an international team studying how to studying how to improve wind farm design.
The effort will be headed by Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, which said Tuesday that the National Science Foundation has awarded $6 million in grants to help fund the work.
The researchers will study how to match the varying output of wind farms with power grids that provide a constant flow of electricity to customers. Johns Hopkins says they will study not only how wind and weather affect electricity output, but the impact of individual turbines on other turbines near them.
Johns Hopkins says researchers from Texas Tech, Smith College and along with European researchers from Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain will also participate in the studies.
