(International Power Generation, February 2004, pp. 1516).
The UK has over 33 per cent of the total European potential offshore wind resource. As a result, it has the potential to harness a significant proportion of its renewable energy generation from offshore windfarms. The process of securing the various planning consents associated with new windfarm developments involves many considerations, including the potential interaction with civilian and military aviation radar system. A potential area of concern for these systems is that wind turbines can generate radar returns, which are very difficult to distinguish from real target returns on radar displays.
Windfarms, Wind energy, Radar study, Wind turbine
