Great Lakes Wind Energy Challenges and Opportunities Assessment

Musiał, W.; Green, Rebecca; DeMeo, Ed; Cooperman, Aubryn; Housner, Stein; Marquis, Melinda; MacDonald, Suzanne E.; McDowell, Brinn; Hein, Cris D.; Rolph, Rebecca; Duffy, Patrick E.; Zuckerman, Gabriel R.; Roberts, Owen; Stefek, Jeremy; Rangel, Eduardo Espitia

doi:10.2172/1968585

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“…These projects can rely on more abundant wind resources than those available on land, while avoiding the expensive expenditures associated with locating projects on inhabited land. Additionally, they have the potential to generate thousands of well-paying jobs [70].…”

Section: Wind Power Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

State of the Art of Renewable Sources Potentialities in the Middle East: A Case Study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Di Lorenzo,

Stracqualursi,

Vescio

et al. 2024

Energies

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is experiencing a surge in electricity demand, with power generation increasing 4 times in 25 years from 1990 to 2014. Despite the abundant primary renewable energy sources, the country has overlooked them in the past in national energy policies. However, in recent years, renewable energy has become a part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s energy conservation policy due to climate changes, technological progress, economies of scale, and increased competitiveness in supply chains. The Saudi government has created the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE) to develop national strategies for effectively utilizing renewable and nuclear energy. This paper reviews the current state of the art of the renewable energy technologies available on the market and evaluates the installation of renewable energy plants near Saudi Arabia’s East Coast for a new town, focusing on technical rather than economic aspects. The paper provides a wide review of the possible technical solutions to exploit the producibility of different renewable sources, considering the challenging climate conditions typical of desert areas. The analysis of a real case study shows a high availability of wind and solar irradiance that allow a net energy production of 354 and 129 GWh, respectively. In addition, the comparison between a typical ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) system and an emerging floating PV reveals that for the same installed power, occupied area, and environmental conditions, the latter has a 4% greater performance ratio due to the cooling effect of water.

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Section: Wind Power Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

State of the Art of Renewable Sources Potentialities in the Middle East: A Case Study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Di Lorenzo,

Stracqualursi,

Vescio

et al. 2024

Energies

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“…We did not include floating technology in the region because, at the time of the analysis, the most current guidance indicated the technology was not feasible in the region due to surface ice issues (Musial et al 2016). More recent work indicates that floating technology in region is feasible, and therefore should be reflected in future work (Musial et al 2023).…”

Section: Great Lakesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of Siting Considerations on Offshore Wind Technical Potential in the United States

Zuckerman¹,

Lopez²,

Williams³

et al. 2023

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We estimated the technical potential for the offshore wind (OSW) resource in the United States under two siting regimes to characterize the uncertainty pertaining to the local drivers of siting within a national context. We established Open Access and Limited Access regimes to represent upper and lower bounds on OSW deployment, respectively. These included spatial constraints such as technology depth limits, military use areas, protected areas, existing infrastructure, shipping lanes and more. The same spatial considerations are also considered in the Limited Access regime, but with additional buffers to existing infrastructure as well as a reduced capacity density assumption. Capacity density is the concentration of wind energy development for a given area specified in terms of megawatts (MW) per square kilometer (km 2 ). In the Open-Access regime we used a 5 MW/km 2 assumption, while in the Limited Access scenario we assumed 3 MW/km 2 . This difference reflects our intention for the Open-Access scenario to serve as an upper bound for OSW technical potential, with the Limited-Access scenario as a lower bound. We also applied three technology advancement scenarios to each of the siting regimes. The three technology scenarios (Conservative, Moderate, and Advanced) represent plausible improvements in turbine technology including increased rated power and higher hub heights.

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Great Lakes wave energy resource classification and Blue Economy opportunities

Pheifer,

Hill

2024

Renewable Energy

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Great Lakes Wind Energy Challenges and Opportunities Assessment

Abstract: This report is available at no cost from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at www.nrel.gov/publications. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reports produced after 1991 and a growing number of pre-1991 documents are available free via www.OSTI.gov.

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

State of the Art of Renewable Sources Potentialities in the Middle East: A Case Study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

State of the Art of Renewable Sources Potentialities in the Middle East: A Case Study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Impacts of Siting Considerations on Offshore Wind Technical Potential in the United States

Great Lakes wave energy resource classification and Blue Economy opportunities

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