Sanjay Arwade, 2020 PEP Fellow, comments in an article about the risks that tornadoes pose to wind turbines

He says the probability of a tornado directly impacting a wind turbine tower is quite low. “If you look at all of the wind turbines across Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, all the Great Plains states, the number of those turbines that are going to be impacted in a given tornado season is small. Even with incorporating the effects of climate change, it is going to remain small,” Arwade says. Read more here

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