US East Coast offshore wind energy resources and their relationship to peak-time electricity demand

Wind Energy

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 977-997

  Dvorak, Michael J ^a   Corcoran, Bethany A ^a   Ten Hoeve, John E ^a   McIntyre, Nicolas G ^a   Jacobson, Mark Z ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

electric power demand; hurricane risk; mesoscale modeling; offshore wind energy; US East Coast; wind climatology

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; HURRICANES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

EAST COAST; ELECTRIC POWER DEMANDS; HURRICANE RISK; MESO-SCALE MODELING; OFF-SHORE WIND ENERGY; WIND CLIMATOLOGY;

WATER RESOURCES;

BATHYMETRY; CLIMATOLOGY; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; UPWELLING; WIND POWER;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886091439     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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