Predicting wind power in marine and coastal environments
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Offshore wind power has the potential to provide substantial carbon-free electricity near large urban load centers, yet it represents only about 1.5% of the total installed wind power capacity (about 200 gigawatts) worldwide in late 2011, with nearly all of those installations in Europe. Despite thousands of megawatts of potential in the coastal areas of the US and hundreds of megawatts proposed off the US East Coast, a single offshore turbine has yet to be built. The dissertation analyzes the offshore wind energy resource of 74% of the contiguous US at high temporal and spatial resolution using mesoscale weather modeling, to determine the potential of this renewable energy resource to drastically reduce US carbon emissions. It was found that all of the electricity used in California and all of the electricity used on the East Coast could be generated using offshore winds. In addition, unlike their onshore counterparts, which generally peak at night, offshore winds were found to provide ample resource during daytime hours, when electricity demand is highest.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Dvorak, Michael Jon |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department |
| Primary advisor | Jacobson, Mark Z. (Mark Zachary) |
| Thesis advisor | Jacobson, Mark Z. (Mark Zachary) |
| Thesis advisor | Chow, Fotini Katopodes |
| Thesis advisor | Street, Robert L |
| Advisor | Chow, Fotini Katopodes |
| Advisor | Street, Robert L |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Michael J. Dvorak. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Michael Jon Dvorak
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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