Power production and area usage of offshore wind and the relationship with available energy in the atmosphere.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an analysis of the area dependency of power and capacity density of wind farms, based on derivations of the available energy in the atmosphere and data on the power production of existing wind farms in the North Sea. The amount of available energy is determined by the mechanical energy budget of the atmospheric boundary layer and is found to be a function of C/A, where C is the circumference and A is the area of the wind farm. The actual power production of 31 wind farms is analyzed, and the power production in 23 of the largest wind farms follows the same functional form as the available energy, indicating that the power production in these wind farms is limited by the available energy. The power density in the North Sea, as a function of the area usage, is found by fi

SUBMITTER: Nost OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12048160 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature