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In the US, a lot of wind farms are getting repowered with bigger turbines, even when they have many more years left on their current equipment. The advances in turbines means more power per turbine, and higher capacity factors.

Though it's hard to imagine much beyond these 15MW offshore beasts, only time will tell what tech improvements we see.

It makes a lot of sense to build turbines with a lower expected lifespan while the technology is still rapidly improving. Nobody wants to operate 30 year old 1MW turbines when 15MW turbines are available.

https://www.tvindkraft.dk/en/history/the-first-40-years

Unfortunately folks don't want wind farms disturbing their views, like the current US Global Warming Czar:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/04/03/massachuse...

Fortunately they're getting better and and bigger and farther away.

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