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Alpha ventus goes along a multiplicity of research projects, which are comprised
under the initiative RAVE ( R esearch at alpha ventus ). Besides developing a wind
park system and technical optimizing, these projects analyze the effect on the close
marine surrounding focused on the marine ecosystem. The essential point is that
2 years before the demand, research started and is still going on. Experience from
alpha ventus helped and will help build further wind farms in the German
economic zone.
Here, alpha ventus is used as a sample of wind farm arrangement in calculated
simulations and provides the possibility of a model evaluation due to the measure-
ments that were already taken around alpha ventus on May 2013. The presence of
alpha ventus helps to collect information about OWF s influence on the ocean and

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confirms results of this study.

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