Current facts about offshore wind farms

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3105-3116

  Madariaga, A ^a   De Alegría, I Martínez ^a   Martin J L ^a   Eguia P ^a   Ceballos, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collector system (CS); Feasibility studies; Offshore wind; Renewable energy source of electricity (RESE); Support schemes; Transmission system (TS); Wind energy conversion system (WECS)

Indexed keywords

COLLECTOR SYSTEMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; OFFSHORE WINDS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM;

COSTS; ELECTRICITY; NATURAL RESOURCES; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; PLANNING; TRANSMISSIONS; WIND POWER;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84858736498     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.02.022     Document Type: Review

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