# Gordon Hughes Back to [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] · [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Research and Evidence|Research and Evidence]] **Role:** Economist, University of Edinburgh (emeritus ⚠️); author of the 2012 Renewable Energy Foundation report on wind-farm decline. - Wrote *The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark* (Renewable Energy Foundation, 2012) ⚠️ (title from memory). It claimed steep load-factor declines after 10–15 years, which is the apparent source of Clack's Sep 23 post. - Has written for the Global Warming Policy Foundation ⚠️ (from memory). - Staffell & Green 2014 attributed much of his estimated decline to the statistical method ⚠️ (paraphrase).