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Potapenko, Tatiana (author), Döhler, Jessica S. (author), Francisco, Francisco (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Temiz, Irina (author)Decarbonization of ports is a major goal to reduce their global carbon footprint. The port of Hvide Sande is located on the coast of the North Sea in Denmark and it has the potential to utilize various renewable energy sources. Wind and solar thermal parks are already installed there. Wave energy is an alternative to solar and wind energies and...journal article 2023
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Verhoeven, Imrat (author), Spruit, Shannon (author), van de Grift, E.M.H.R. (author), Cuppen, Eefje (author)Local governments are at the heart of implementing increasingly ambitious national plans for wind energy. While support by local governments for these plans has been studied extensively, only few studies have looked into local governments’ contestation of wind energy development. In this paper we analyze contentious governance processes in which...journal article 2022
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Alday Gonzalez, M.F. (author), Baki, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Lavidas, G. (author)This Deliverable, 6.2 Renewable Coarse Resource Assessment for the European Region, aims to offer a preliminary overview of the available wind, wave and solar resources across the European Continent. The coarse assessment aims to analyse and assess the current levels of these renewable resources, analysing and discussing the expected variations...report 2022
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Alday Gonzalez, M.F. (author), Baki, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Lavidas, G. (author)This Deliverable, 6.1 Renewable Correlation of offshore resources, aims to investigate the potential for correlation between parameters of different renewable energies.<br/>The analysis is based on a first layer on coarse data, and will allow us to identify which resources have more “connectivity”. The resource assessment, even at coarse level,...report 2022
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Barber, Sarah (author), Lima, Luiz Andre Moyses (author), Sakagami, Yoshiaki (author), Quick, Julian (author), Latiffianti, Effi (author), Liu, Y. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), Letzgus, Simon (author), Zhang, Xujie (author), Hammer, Florian (author)In the next decade, further digitalisation of the entire wind energy project lifecycle is expected to be a major driver for reducing project costs and risks. In this paper, a literature review on the challenges related to implementation of digitalisation in the wind energy industry is first carried out, showing that there is a strong need for...journal article 2022
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Dong, J. (author)In order to significantly increase the share of wind energy produced worldwide, wind energy technology is moving from onshore to offshore and from shallow water to deep water. Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are expected to be economically better than bottom-mounted turbines when placed in water deeper than 60 metres. Despite key...doctoral thesis 2021
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Mehta, M.K. (author), van Holthoon, G.J. (author), von Terzi, D.A. (author), Zaaijer, M B (author)The potential technical benefits of wind-storage hybrids, mainly arbitrage, imbalance reduction, and frequency support, are convincing enough to launch demonstration projects. However, a quantitative analysis of these benefits, including economic considerations, is lacking. The aim of this study is to establish at what costs such technical...conference paper 2021
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De Kooning, Jeroen D. M. (author), Stockman, Kurt (author), De Maeyer, Jeroen (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author), Vandevelde, Lieven (author)The Industry 4.0 concept of a Digital Twin will bring many advantages for wind energy conversion systems, e.g., in condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and the optimisation of control or design parameters. A virtual replica is at the heart of a digital twin. To construct a virtual replica, appropriate modelling techniques must be...review 2021
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Greco, F. (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author)Desalination is a well-established technology used all over the world to mitigate freshwater scarcity. Wind-powered reverse osmosis plants are one of the most promising alternatives for renewable energy desalination, particularly for coastal areas and islands. Wind energy can satisfy the high energy consumption of desalination while reducing...review 2021
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Wohland, Jan (author), Brayshaw, David (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author)To reach its goal of net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050, the European Union seeks to massively expand wind and solar power. Relying on weather-dependent power generation, however, poses substantial risks if climate variability is not adequately understood and accounted for in energy system design. Here we quantify European wind and solar...journal article 2021
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Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Jiang, Zhiyu (author), Ren, Zhengru (author), Caboni, Marco (author), Verhoef, Hans (author), van der Mijle-Meijer, Harald (author), Castro, Saullo G.P. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author)Rain-induced leading-edge erosion (LEE) of wind turbine blades (WTBs) is associated with high repair and maintenance costs. The effects of LEE can be triggered in less than 1 to 2 years for some wind turbine sites, whereas it may take several years for others. In addition, the growth of erosion may also differ for different blades and...journal article 2021
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Bartolome Marques, L.A. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author)Rain erosion on the leading edge of wind turbine blades is an intricate engineering challenge for the wind industry. Based on an energetic approach, this work proposes a methodology to characterise the erosion capacity of the raindrop impacts onto the leading edge blades. This methodology can be used with meteorological data from public...journal article 2021
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Li, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)In the near future, wind and solar generation are projected to play an increasingly important role in Europe's energy sector. With such fast-growing renewable energy development, the presence of simultaneous calm wind and overcast conditions could cause significant shortfalls in production with potentially serious consequences for system...journal article 2021
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Basu, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Lacoa Arends, Eric (author), Cheneka, B.R. (author)A hybrid neural network model, comprising of a convolutional neural network and a multilayer perceptron network, has been developed for day-ahead forecasting of regional scale wind power production. This model requires operational weather forecasts as input and also has the capability to ingest data from ensemble forecasts. Even though the...conference paper 2020
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Bijl, H.J. (author)Wind turbines are growing bigger to becomemore cost-efficient. This does increase the severity of the vibrations that are present in the turbine blades, both due to predictable effects like wind shear and tower shadow, and due to less predictable effects like turbulence and flutter. If wind turbines are to become bigger and more cost-efficient,...doctoral thesis 2018
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Abrahamsen, Asger Bech (author), Liu, D. (author), Magnusson, Niklas (author), Thomas, Arwyn (author), Azar, Ziad (author), Stehouwer, Ewoud (author), Hendriks, Ben (author), Van Zinderen, Gerrit-Jan (author), Deng, Fujin (author), Chen, Zhe (author), Karwatzki, Dennis (author), Mertens, Axel (author), Parker, Max (author), Finney, Stephen (author), Polinder, H. (author)A method for comparing the levelized cost of energy (LCoE) of different superconducting drive trains is introduced. The properties of a 10-MW MgB<sub>2</sub> superconducting direct-drive generator and the cost break down of the nacelle components are presented and scaled up to a turbine with a rotor diameter of up to 280 m. The partial load...journal article 2018
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Bartolome Marques, L.A. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author)Developments in the wind industry reveal intricate engineering challenges, one of them being the erosion on the leading edge of the wind turbine blades. In this review work, the main issues for the wind industry in the experimentation with respect to erosion are examined. After a historical and general overview of erosion, this review focuses...journal article 2018
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Lavidas, G. (author), Venugopal, Vengatesan (author)At autonomous electricity grids Renewable Energy (RE) contributes significantly to energy production. Offshore resources benefit from higher energy density, smaller visual impacts, and higher availability levels. Offshore locations at the West of Crete obtain wind availability ≈80%, combining this with the installation potential for large scale...journal article 2018
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Bos, R. (author)Wind turbines are the largest rotating machines on the planet, operating in some of the most remote and hostile areas. During a lifespan of several decades, they have to withstand storms, waves, and gusts (and preferably produce electricity in the process). Yet, designers cannot make them too strong. Every additional kilogram of mass has to be...doctoral thesis 2017