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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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281Renewable Electricity
the output of two sites decreases with the distance between them, but
increases with the time span considered. Thus, by using wind from multi-
ple geographically dispersed sites, a utility can easily reduce the short-term
uctuations in wind generation, but will nd it more difcult to smooth
out the daily wind generation. Figure 7.20 shows how the coefcient of
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FIGURE 7.19
Impact of geographic diversity on variability in wind generation. (From Ernst, B., et al.,
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