The valley in the eastern part of Portugal is suddenly changing as the international team has arrived there which will stay for next 5 months. People are witnessing 100 meters high towers in the valley.

The nation is getting ready to have world’s largest wind mapping project, called Perdigão. The international team arrived especially for this project will measure everything related to the wind. They will consider speed, direction and other characteristic of the wind.

The aim is to help engineers to decide where to build wind turbines to get the most energy from them.

Europe gets 11% of its total energy from wind. But just a 10% shift in wind speed will be able to increase the amount of energy produced up to 30%, says Jakob Mann, a wind-energy researcher at the Technical University of Denmark.

Portugal has a well built and developed  wind industry and the Perdigão ridges already host one turbine. Much of the scientific equipment is already there and running well; researchers will now install the remaining machinery and infrastructure throughout February.

Many studies have looked at wind patterns on the scale of 1 kilometer, but the Perdigão experiment is the first to push large-scale wind mapping down to resolutions of 100–500 meters, says Harindra Fernando, a fluid-dynamics engineer at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.