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diverse area will as a whole rarely stop producing power altogether. This is rarely the case for smaller areas with uniform geography such as Ireland, Scotland and Denmark which have several days per year with little wind power.
* Capacity factor: Wind power typically has an annual capacity factor of 25-50%, with offshore wind outperforming onshore wind.
* Dispatchability: Because wind power is not by itself dispatchable wind farms are sometimes built with storage.
* Capacity credit: At low levels of penetration,

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