Global ‘Stilling’: If you feel the wind is coming to a halt, climate change may be behind it

Category : Climate Change | Location : International  | Posted on 2022-09-16 06:41:24

Parts of Europe have reported a ‘wind drought’, as wind speed in many places slowed about 15 per cent below the annual average or even more. Researchers suspect a global ‘stilling’ is at play — wind speed slacking as global temperatures go up. 

2021’s summer-fall was one of the least windy periods in the United Kingdom in the past 60 years, a report in an American online magazine Yale Environment 360 said. This had dramatic effects on power generation. 

Wind farms produced 18 per cent of the UK’s power in September of 2020, but in September of 2021, that percentage plummeted to only two per cent. The UK was forced to restart two non-operational coal plants to make up the energy gap.

Source: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/global-stilling-if-you-feel-the-wind-is-coming-to-a-halt-climate-change-may-be-behind-it-84947