Windfarm Characteristics and Their Effect on Radar Systems

Generating electricity from renewable energy sources is a major part of the UK Government’s strategy to tackle climate change and to develop business opportunities. It has set ambitious targets of generating 10% of all UK’s energy from renewable sources by 2010 with an aspiration to double this by 2020. Wind energy is expected to be a key contributor to these targets. There are concerns, however, that the construction of wind farms will have a negative effect on both Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Air Defence (AD) radars and many windfarm developments fail due to objections from radar…