Using energy payback time to optimise onshore and offshore wind turbine foundations

Chris Horgan

Renewable Energy, 2013, vol. 53, issue C, 287-298

Abstract: Ireland has a target of meeting 40% of its electricity requirement with renewable energy by 2020. It is estimated that Ireland has a practical wind energy resource of 613 TWh, which is about 21 times the total electricity requirement in Ireland at the end of 2008. Therefore wind energy is worth pursuing, however many technical challenges remain as it progresses offshore, one of which is the foundation and this will be designed and optimised in this paper.

Keywords: Finite element analysis; Wind energy; Foundation design; Structural engineering; Economics; Cost-benefit analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.10.044

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