Even
seasoned
developers
find
themselves
lulled
into
a
false
sense
of
faith
in
existing
wind-resource
data,
particularly
in
long-studied,
much-developed
regions
such
as
Europe.
But
the
reality
is
that
the
data
is
—
at
best
—
in
an
eternal
state
of
flux.
At
worst,
it
is
incomplete
or
even
wildly
inaccurate,
says
Jos
Beurskens,
a
multi-decade
veteran
of
the
European
renewables
sector,
with
former
ties
to the
European
Wind
Energy
Association
and
the
Energy
Research
Centre
of
the
Netherlands,
among
others.
“Everybody
thinks
that
you
look
at
a
wind
atlas
and
you
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