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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-787-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-787-2023
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22 May 2023
Research article |  | 22 May 2023

Investigating energy production and wake losses of multi-gigawatt offshore wind farms with atmospheric large-eddy simulation

Peter Baas, Remco Verzijlbergh, Pim van Dorp, and Harm Jonker

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This work studies the energy production and wake losses of large offshore wind farms with a large-eddy simulation model. Therefore, 1 year of actual weather has been simulated for a suite of hypothetical 4 GW wind farm scenarios. The results suggest that production numbers increase significantly when the rated power of the individual turbines is larger while keeping the total installed capacity the same. Also, a clear impact of atmospheric stability on the energy production is found.
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