The Danish energy giant is a public company with stock holders. They make money when the wind blows and when the wind doesn't blow, they make less money.
The company's profits will be 11 to 16 percent lower this year because of three things. The first is lower wind speeds. Even though the wind speeds seem to be increasing everywhere, apparently there are places where the wind is not constantly increasing. This is apparently the same situation as the rain fall situation where some places are getting less rain while other places are getting more rain as the the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere continues to increase.
Seems like after every major storm that exits the east coast nowadays there is a day or two of intense winds up to 50 or 60 mph. This is after the storm clouds are gone and the rain has quit. We never had this type of weather after just about every storm before. It is caused by the big difference in pressure between the high and low pressure systems. I don't know if the pressures are higher and lower or if the size of the low and high pressure centers are larger than before. Could also be just the way they move away from each other now.
If the winds continue to fall off, I wonder if they will move the turbines or just put up more of them. In the northeast, there are wind turbines that are easily moved from location to location. I don't know if they follow the winds or if the agreements with landowners are only temporary.
The ocean based Danish wind turbines have big piles of rocks laid down at their bases to stop erosion of the ground the turbines are anchored in. The rocks at the bases are shifting around and crimping or damaging the power cables that collect the power from the turbines and feed the power to a central location. They have to replace the cables and change the way they prevent erosion at the bases or they will have to change the way the cables are laid or use stronger cables. It comes to around 300 million dollars to fix the cables. 10 of their wind farms in the North Sea and offshore of Europe have the problem. The cost of permanently fixing the cable situation could go even higher than currently estimated.
The company's profits will be 11 to 16 percent lower this year because of three things. The first is lower wind speeds. Even though the wind speeds seem to be increasing everywhere, apparently there are places where the wind is not constantly increasing. This is apparently the same situation as the rain fall situation where some places are getting less rain while other places are getting more rain as the the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere continues to increase.
Seems like after every major storm that exits the east coast nowadays there is a day or two of intense winds up to 50 or 60 mph. This is after the storm clouds are gone and the rain has quit. We never had this type of weather after just about every storm before. It is caused by the big difference in pressure between the high and low pressure systems. I don't know if the pressures are higher and lower or if the size of the low and high pressure centers are larger than before. Could also be just the way they move away from each other now.
If the winds continue to fall off, I wonder if they will move the turbines or just put up more of them. In the northeast, there are wind turbines that are easily moved from location to location. I don't know if they follow the winds or if the agreements with landowners are only temporary.
The ocean based Danish wind turbines have big piles of rocks laid down at their bases to stop erosion of the ground the turbines are anchored in. The rocks at the bases are shifting around and crimping or damaging the power cables that collect the power from the turbines and feed the power to a central location. They have to replace the cables and change the way they prevent erosion at the bases or they will have to change the way the cables are laid or use stronger cables. It comes to around 300 million dollars to fix the cables. 10 of their wind farms in the North Sea and offshore of Europe have the problem. The cost of permanently fixing the cable situation could go even higher than currently estimated.