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21. Professor Hughes and Chris Goodall
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

Last week the energy blogger Chris Goodall published, on two websites, a comment on Professor Hughes' study for REF on the degradation of wind turbine performance over time (See Carbon Commentary; and ...

22. Response to Professor Mackay on REF's UK wind farm lifetime analysis
(Foundation Section/Publications)

Following a recent and unfortunately misleading article in the Sunday Telegraph (08.12.13) by Christopher Booker there has been a certain amount of renewed comment on Professor Gordon Hughes’ work concerning ...

23. REF correspondence with Scottish Government on Wind Farm Performance
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

... of wind in any month or year. The Scottish Government’s view is that allowing for this is difficult and thus the results reported in Professor Hughes’s study published by the Foundation – referred to as ...

24. REF Writes to Fergus Ewing MSP
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

... between Mr Ewing and Mr Murdo Fraser, MSP concerning the study by Professor Hughes of wind turbine performance degradation and economic lifetime: Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Scottish Conservative ...

25. Reforming Green Energy Policies
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

... from the need to reduce the cost of those technologies in order to render them fundamentally competitive. For example, our recent publication, by the statistical economist Gordon Hughes, , reveals that ...

26. Wear and Tear Hits Wind Farm Output and Economic Lifetime
(Foundation Section/Press Releases)

... economists, Professor Gordon Hughes of the University of Edinburgh[3], and has been anonymously peer-reviewed.  This groundbreaking study applies rigorous statistical analysis to years of actual wind ...

27. Analysis of Wind Farm Performance in UK and Denmark
(Foundation Section/Publications)

REF publishes today a research paper by Dr Gordon Hughes, Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh, on the performance over time of wind farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark.  The ...