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On a local level they absolutely do, in a wind farm one turbine can shadow another and reduce its output significantly. It makes wind farm layout a tricky optimisation problem. On larger scales the impact is pretty minimal though, there’s so much energy spread over such a large area that significantly reducing it a global scale is not a concern.


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