The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential

Hywind-Scotland is a wind farm in Scotland that for many reasons is at the leading edge of technology and is located at a paradigmatic study area for offshore wind energy assessment. The objective of this paper is to compute the Capacity Factor ( CF ) changes and instantaneous power generation chang...

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Autores: Ulazia, Alain, Nafarrate, Ander, Ibarra-Berastegi, Gabriel, Sáenz, Jon, Carreno-Madinabeitia, Sheila
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:TECNALIA Research & Innovation
Repositorio:TECNALIA Publications
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:ERA5
Air density
Offshore wind energy
FAST
Scotland
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
Funding Info
This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.
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spelling The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy PotentialUlazia, AlainNafarrate, AnderIbarra-Berastegi, GabrielSáenz, JonCarreno-Madinabeitia, SheilaERA5Air densityOffshore wind energyFASTScotlandERA5Air densityOffshore wind energyFASTScotlandSDG 7 - Affordable and Clean EnergyFunding InfoThis work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.Hywind-Scotland is a wind farm in Scotland that for many reasons is at the leading edge of technology and is located at a paradigmatic study area for offshore wind energy assessment. The objective of this paper is to compute the Capacity Factor ( CF ) changes and instantaneous power generation changes due to seasonal and hourly fluctuations in air density. For that reason, the novel ERA5 reanalysis is used as a source of temperature, pressure, and wind speed data. Seasonal results for winter show that CF values increase by 3% due to low temperatures and denser air, with economical profit consequences of tens of thousands (US$). Hourly results show variations of 7% in air density and of 26% in power generation via FAST simulations, emphasizing the need to include air density in short-term wind energy studying.TECNALIA Research & Innovation20192019-01-0120192019-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11556/744reponame:TECNALIA Publicationsinstname:TECNALIA Research & InnovationInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dsp.tecnalia.com:11556/7442026-06-12T12:42:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
title The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
spellingShingle The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
Ulazia, Alain
ERA5
Air density
Offshore wind energy
FAST
Scotland
ERA5
Air density
Offshore wind energy
FAST
Scotland
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
Funding Info
This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.
This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.
title_short The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
title_full The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
title_fullStr The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
title_full_unstemmed The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
title_sort The Consequences of Air Density Variations over Northeastern Scotland for Offshore Wind Energy Potential
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ulazia, Alain
Nafarrate, Ander
Ibarra-Berastegi, Gabriel
Sáenz, Jon
Carreno-Madinabeitia, Sheila
author Ulazia, Alain
author_facet Ulazia, Alain
Nafarrate, Ander
Ibarra-Berastegi, Gabriel
Sáenz, Jon
Carreno-Madinabeitia, Sheila
author_role author
author2 Nafarrate, Ander
Ibarra-Berastegi, Gabriel
Sáenz, Jon
Carreno-Madinabeitia, Sheila
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv TECNALIA Research & Innovation
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv ERA5
Air density
Offshore wind energy
FAST
Scotland
ERA5
Air density
Offshore wind energy
FAST
Scotland
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
Funding Info
This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.
This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.
topic ERA5
Air density
Offshore wind energy
FAST
Scotland
ERA5
Air density
Offshore wind energy
FAST
Scotland
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
Funding Info
This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.
This work was financially supported by the Spanish Government through the MINECO project CGL2016-76561-R, (MINECO/ERDF, UE) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, GIU 17/002). ERA5 hindcast data were downloaded at no cost from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. All the calculations and plots were made using R: https://www.r-project.org.
description Hywind-Scotland is a wind farm in Scotland that for many reasons is at the leading edge of technology and is located at a paradigmatic study area for offshore wind energy assessment. The objective of this paper is to compute the Capacity Factor ( CF ) changes and instantaneous power generation changes due to seasonal and hourly fluctuations in air density. For that reason, the novel ERA5 reanalysis is used as a source of temperature, pressure, and wind speed data. Seasonal results for winter show that CF values increase by 3% due to low temperatures and denser air, with economical profit consequences of tens of thousands (US$). Hourly results show variations of 7% in air density and of 26% in power generation via FAST simulations, emphasizing the need to include air density in short-term wind energy studying.
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