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17 Sep 2020
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US East Coast synthetic aperture radar wind atlas for offshore wind energy
Tobias Ahsbahs
DTU Wind Energy, Risø, Roskilde, Denmark
Galen Maclaurin
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Caroline Draxl
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Christopher R. Jackson
Global Ocean Associates, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Frank Monaldo
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland, USA
DTU Wind Energy, Risø, Roskilde, Denmark
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Wind Energ. Sci., 5, 977–981, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-977-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-977-2020, 2020
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Rain erosion on wind turbine blades is a severe challenge for wind energy today. It causes significant losses in power production, and large sums are spent on inspection and repair.
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Tobias Ahsbahs, Merete Badger, Patrick Volker, Kurt S. Hansen, and Charlotte B. Hasager
Wind Energ. Sci., 3, 573–588, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-573-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-573-2018, 2018
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Satellites offer wind measurements offshore and can resolve the wind speed on scales of up to 500 m. To date, this data is not routinely used in the industry for planning wind farms. We show that this data can be used to predict local differences in the mean wind speed around the Anholt offshore wind farm. With satellite data, site-specific wind measurements can be introduced early in the planning phase of an offshore wind farm and help decision makers.
Sebastian Schafhirt and Michael Muskulus
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Lisa Ziegler, Ursula Smolka, Nicolai Cosack, and Michael Muskulus
Wind Energ. Sci., 2, 469–476, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-469-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-469-2017, 2017
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Antonio Jarquin Laguna
Wind Energ. Sci., 2, 387–402, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-387-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-387-2017, 2017
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This paper presents the idea of centralized electricity production in a wind farm by means of water technology. A new way of generating and transmitting wind energy is explored with no intermediate electrical conversion until the energy has reached the central offshore platform. This work includes the modelling and simulations of a hypothetical hydraulic wind farm, where results indicate good performance despite the turbulent wind conditions and wake effects.
Steffen Aasen, Ana M. Page, Kristoffer Skjolden Skau, and Tor Anders Nygaard
Wind Energ. Sci., 2, 361–376, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-361-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-361-2017, 2017
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The industry standard for analysis of monopile foundations is inaccurate, and alternative models for foundation behavior are needed. This study investigates how four different soil-foundation models affect the fatigue damage of an offshore wind turbine with a monopile foundation. Stiffness and damping properties have a noticeable effect, in particular for idling cases. At mud-line, accumulated fatigue damage varied up to 22 % depending on the foundation model used.
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Before constructing wind farms we need to know how much energy they will produce. This requires knowledge of long-term wind conditions from either measurements or models. At the US East Coast there are few wind measurements and little experience with offshore wind farms. Therefore, we created a satellite-based high-resolution wind resource map to quantify spatial variations in the wind conditions over potential sites for wind farms and found larger variation than modelling suggested.
Before constructing wind farms we need to know how much energy they will produce. This requires...
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