Brazil has inaugurated the first wind tunnel to serve its 10-year-old industry, a move it hopes will help boost operational performance of existing wind farms and better test new equipment for greenfield developments.
“Developers will be able to test hypotheses and designs of wind farms based on computer modelling and wind measurement projections so, in a few year’s time, we will be able to know how much [the sector] can gain from such analysis,” said Nelson Araújo, manager of research, development and innovation at federal power company Furnas, which invested R$5m ($1.3m)
