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Accession Number
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DE2012-1055364
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Title
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Improved Offshore Wind Resource Assessment in Global Climate Stabilization Scenarios.
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Publication Date
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Oct 2012
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Media Count
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29p
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Personal Author
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A. Lopez D. Heimiller K. Eurek P. Sullivan
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Abstract
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This paper introduces a technique for digesting geospatial wind-speed data into areally defined--country-level, in this case--wind resource supply curves. We combined gridded wind-vector data for ocean areas with bathymetry maps, country exclusive economic zones, wind turbine power curves, and other datasets and relevant parameters to build supply curves that estimate a country's offshore wind resource defined by resource quality, depth, and distance-from-shore. We include a single set of supply curves--for a particular assumption set--and study some implications of including it in a global energy model. We also discuss the importance of downscaling gridded wind vector data to capturing the full resource potential, especially over land areas with complex terrain. This paper includes motivation and background for a statistical downscaling methodology to account for terrain effects with a low computational burden. Finally, we use this forum to sketch a framework for building synthetic electric networks to estimate transmission accessibility of renewable resource sites in remote areas.
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Keywords
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Climates
Environmental assessments
Global aspects
Methodology
Offshore
Renewable resources
Resource potential
Sites
Terrain
Wind power
Wind turbines
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Source Agency
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Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
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NTIS Subject Category
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97O - Miscellaneous Energy Conversion & Storage
97R - Environmental Studies
47 - Ocean Sciences & Technology
55C - Meteorological Data Collection, Analysis, & Weather Forecast
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Corporate Author
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National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO.
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Document Type
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Technical report
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Title Note
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N/A
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NTIS Issue Number
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1309
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Contract Number
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DE-AC36-08GO28308
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