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Many in the industry think wakes recover to the upwind speed within 3-5 km or ~30-50 rotor diameters. What if the real answer is 10 times bigger? Then, "Add a zero". - It turns out that the state of the atmosphere - an inversion, for example – lengthens the distance wakes travel by 10x and this effect is not well captured in all commonly and currently used fast easy-to-use wake models, requiring a more sophisticated approach. Because long-range (> 30-50 RD) wake losses have not been considered significant they have not been validated in current wake loss models, leaving a gap in knowledge that increases energy production risk as we build more and more wind farms.

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