Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2147-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-2147-2024
Research article
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11 Nov 2024
Research article |  | 11 Nov 2024

Estimating the technical wind energy potential of Kansas that incorporates the effect of regional wind resource depletion by wind turbines

Jonathan Minz, Axel Kleidon, and Nsilulu T. Mbungu

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Estimates of power output from regional wind turbine deployments in energy scenarios assume that the impact of the atmospheric feedback on them is minimal. But numerical models show that the impact is large at the proposed scales of future deployment. We show that this impact can be captured by accounting only for the kinetic energy removed by turbines from the atmosphere. This can be easily applied to energy scenarios and leads to more physically representative estimates.
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