Reducing LCoE from offshore wind by multiscale wake modeling

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    • Overview

    The move to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions is gathering international momentum fueled by both the urgent need to reduce anthropogenic forcing of climate and rapid declines in the cost of renewable generation sources. In March 2021, the White House made a commitment to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind as part of a move to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels in 2030 and a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 (see White House briefing at; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/). The United Kingdom government has committed to deploy 40 GW of offshore wind, sufficient to power every home in the United Kingdom by 2030. The European Commission’s Long-Term Strategy to decarbonization assumes 400 to 450 GW of installed offshore wind capacity within European waters by 2050. China has also committed to increasing the installed capacity of wind and solar power to over 1200 GW by 2030 from 414 GW in 2019. This unprecedented and rapid expansion of global offshore wind energy deployments affords opportunities to accelerate energy system transitions and reduce anthropogenic climate forcing. It also raises challenges in terms of how to optimally locate wind turbines offshore at the scale required to achieve electricity generation goals. This proposal is designed to provide timely and critical tools and information to guide growth of both U.S. and global offshore wind energy deployments.

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    Core Team

  • Professor Sara C. Pryor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Professor Rebecca J. Barthelmie, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Dr. Kelsey Thompson: Post Doc, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

    • Related readings

  • Pryor S.C., Barthelmie R.J., Shepherd T.J., Hahmann A.N. and Garcia Santiago O.M. (2022): Wakes in and between very large offshore arrays. Journal of Physics: Conference series 2265 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/2/022037 .
  • Barthelmie R.J., Larsen G.C., Mølgaard Pedersen M. and Pryor S.C. (2022): Microscale modeling of wind turbines in the New York offshore lease area. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2265 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/2/022040.
  • Debnath M., Scholbrock A.K., Zalkind D., Moriarty P., Simley E., Hamilton D., Ivanov A., Barthelmie R., Bodini N., Brewer A., Herges T., Hirth B., Iungo G.V., Jager D., Kaul C., Klein P., Krishnamurthy R., Letizia S., Lundquist J.K., Newsom R., Pryor S.C., Ritsche M.T., Roadman J., Schroeder J., Shaw W.J., Van Dam J., Wharton S. (2022): Design of American Wake Experiment field campaign. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2265 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/2/022058 .
  • Aird J.A., Barthelmie R.J., Shepherd T.J. and Pryor S.C. (2022): Occurrence of low-level jets over the eastern US coastal zone at heights relevant to wind energy. Energies, 15, 445 doi: 10.3390/en15020445
  • Pryor S.C., Barthelmie R.J. and Shepherd T.J. (2021): Wind power production from very large offshore wind farms. Joule doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2021.09.002
  • Barthelmie R.J., Dantuono K., Renner E., Letson F.W. and Pryor S.C. (2021): Extreme wind and waves in U.S. east coast offshore wind energy lease areas. Energies 14 1053 doi: 10.3390/en14041053
  • Barthelmie R.J., Aird J., Letson F. and Pryor S.C. (2022): Wind, waves and wakes for the U.S. east coast offshore lease areas. WindTech International, 18 #3 p20-22.
  • Pryor S.C. and Barthelmie R.J. (2021): A global assessment of extreme wind speeds for wind energy applications. Nature Energy doi: 10.1038/s41560-020-00773-7
  • Pryor S.C., Barthelmie R.J. and Shepherd T.J. (2020): 20% of US electricity from wind will have limited impacts on system efficiency and regional climate. Nature: Scientific Reports 10 541 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-57371-1
  • Pryor S.C., Shepherd T.J., Volker P., Hahmann A.N. and Barthelmie R.J. (2020): ‘Wind theft’ from onshore wind turbine arrays: Sensitivity to wind farm parameterization and resolution. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 59 153-174
  • Barthelmie R.J., Hansen K. and Pryor S.C. (2013): Meteorological controls on wind turbine wakes. Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 101 1010-1019
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