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Salvação, N. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Offshore wind energy assessment for the Iberian coast with a regional atmospheric model”, Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C. (Ed.), 2015, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 219-228
This paper determines the offshore wind power resources off the Iberian coast using 5 years of high resolution winds produced with the mesoscale atmospheric model WRF. The results from the numerical simulations are compared against hourly wind observations to provide an objective verification of whether the model is able to reproduce realist wind circulation patterns within the study area. Moreover, the wind speed frequency distribution is used to calculate the annual energy production at each of five hypothetical locations for wind turbine installation, based on the specifications of a Vestas V80 wind turbine. The results show that the model is able to produce realistic offshore wind climatologies making it a reliable and powerful tool for building wind resource maps. Moreover, on the basis of the assumptions made and the turbine type selected, it can be concluded that a high potential for offshore wind energy harnessing is available in the Portuguese and Northern Spain coasts.
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