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A landmark study of performance data reveals that energy output from onshore wind farms begins to drop sharply after just 10 to 15 years.

This leaves these skeletons of steel and composite plastic flapping in the breeze.

While the wind industry and governments routinely promise a 20- to 25-year operational lifespan, long-term empirical analysis tells a very different story. Many onshore turbines across the UK and Denmark begin showing severe mechanical wear and output degradation much earlier than projected.

In this statistical study for the Renewable Energy Foundation - The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark - energy economist Professor Gordon Hughes analysed thousands of wind farm operational records.

His findings were stark: load factors (electricity generated as a percentage of total capacity) declined far faster than industry models predict. Hughes concluded that the effective technical lifespan of many turbines ranges between 10 and 15 years, after which soaring maintenance costs and falling output make continued operation uneconomical.

For UK onshore wind farms, average output capability fell by roughly a third after 10 years, rendering many fully uneconomic to maintain beyond 12 years without heavy intervention.

To mask this rapid degradation and maintain financial viability, operators increasingly resort to 'repowering' — dismantling and replacing turbines long before their theoretical 25-year mark to capture new subsidy regimes.

The original hardware is routinely prematurely retired, exposing a grim reality behind the theory.

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