Where is the ideal location for a US East Coast offshore grid?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Dvorak, Michael J ^a   Stoutenburg, Eric D ^a   Archer, Cristina L ^b   Kempton, Willett ^b,c   Jacobson, Mark Z ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY RESOURCES; STORMS;

CAPACITY FACTORS; EAST COAST; GEORGES BANK; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE; NEW ENGLAND; NEW YORK; OFF-SHORE WIND ENERGY; OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY RESOURCE; POWER OUT PUT; RAMP RATES; SEA BREEZE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; SUMMER MONTHS; TURBINE FOUNDATIONS; VARIABLE POWER; WEATHER MODEL DATA; WIND FARM; ZERO-POWER;

WIND POWER;

OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; SEA BREEZE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK; LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; MID-ATLANTIC STATES; NEW ENGLAND; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84858640256     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050659     Document Type: Article

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