Seasonal variability of wake impacts on US mid-Atlantic offshore wind plant power production

Articles | Volume 9, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-555-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-555-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 3

Research article

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14 Mar 2024

Research article |

| 14 Mar 2024

David Rosencrans, Julie K. Lundquist, Mike Optis, Alex Rybchuk, Nicola Bodini, and Michael Rossol

Data sets

2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23) National Renewable Energy Laboratory https://doi.org/10.25984/1821404

ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6

Renewable Energy GIS Data Bureau of Ocean Energy Management https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/mapping-and-data/renewable-energy-gis-data

mid-Atlantic_turbines D. Rosencrans https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7374283

mid-Atlantic_namelists David Rosencrans https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7374239

Short summary

The US offshore wind industry is developing rapidly. Using yearlong simulations of wind plants...