This evaluation supports the general view that larger turbines in deeper water can be expected to perform at higher capacity factors than their smaller nearshore predecessors.
As it seems unlikely that offshore wind farms are not subject to similar performance degradation as onshore wind farms, this finding is worthy of additional research.
by a single month snapshot from December 2017, which also shows that the performance of the floating HyWind demonstrator is comparable with the best performing bottom-mounted wind farms, but not markedly better.
The overall availability of a wind farm is governed by the reliability of the wind turbines in the wind farm and ancillary equipment, together with factors regarding access and time to repair, and these figures are clearly commercially sensitive.
This analysis shows that the performance of UK offshore wind correlates with water depth and age, confirming that more modern wind farms, which are typically further offshore than earlier projects, achieve higher capacity factors than those earlier projects.
This analysis supports Equinor's claim that its HyWind project in Scotland achieves a capacity factor comparable to the best fixed offshore wind farms, although the northerly location of HyWind, offshore Peterhead in northeast Scotland, may mean that the wind resource was better
Finally, the analysis can be extended and applied to wind farms in Denmark, Germany, and Belgium and other locations where output data are available.
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@GreenNews_ie @greenparty_ie @foeireland @OisinCoghlan @paul_gavan FYI Irelands Off Shore Wind Resources is pro ported to be very large. We could be exporting energy to Europe and running an affordable train and tram system as they do in Denmark
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FYI Irelands Off Shore Wind Resources is pro ported to be very large. We could be exporting energy to Europe and running an affordable train and tram system as they do in Denmark theguardian.com/world/2017/jan…
