If the wind intensifies very quickly, the amount of power generated by the wind turbines increases rapidly, injecting excess power into the generation system.

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Aircraft typically take off or land against the direction of the wind, which increases the lift to their wings.

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Anyone who has flown knows that the wind speed increases with height.

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The clean-energy glut was predictable, given the tendency of snow to melt in the spring and given whopping increases in the region's wind-generating capacity.

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It will increase the amount of energy generated from offshore wind in the UK by one third to 1, 314MW. Opened in September, the Thanet wind-farm was built by the Swedish Vattenfall energy company, and increases the number of large-scale offshore British turbines to 436, to be compared with 2, 640 based on land.

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When that wind generation component increases, the temperatures of fossil-fueled boilers must be dropped to maintain demand-supply equality.

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China has a huge thirst for energy that it will slake from as many wells as it can, with planned big increases in wind power and in gas as well as the nuclear build-out and ever more coal-fired plants.

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Helen admits the "intermittency" of wind poses some technical challenges, as its share of electricity supply increases.

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