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"Wind farm off the #Massachusetts coast begins delivering steady flow of #power
#VineyardWind, the wind farm under construction off the coast of Massachusetts, has begun delivering e…

Wind farm off the Massachusetts coast begins delivering steady flow of power
Vineyard Wind, the wind farm under construction off the coast of Massachusetts, has begun delivering energy to the power grid from five of its planned 62...

Anomaly Detection in Offshore Wind Turbine Structures using Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
S. M. Smith, A. J. Hughes, T. A. Dardeno, L. A. Bull, N. Dervilis, K. Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19295

Anomaly Detection in Offshore Wind Turbine Structures using Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
Population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM), aims to share information between members of a population. An offshore wind (OW) farm could be considered as a population of nominally-identical wind-turbine structures. However, benign variations exist among members, such as geometry, sea-bed conditions and temperature differences. These factors could influence structural properties and therefore the dynamic response, making it more difficult to detect structural problems via traditional S…

Save the whale, just not the planet it lives on…
Am I the only one perturbed by this level of cognitive dissonance?
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4539845-biden-administration-sued-over-v…

Biden administration sued over Virginia offshore wind farm approval
A conservative think tank on Monday sued the Biden administration in an effort to reverse approval of what would be the largest offshore wind farm of its kind.  The Heartland Institute filed the suit with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a nonprofit that advocates for an economically libertarian approach to environmental action and has denied…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10172 has been replaced.
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Enhancing wind field resolution in complex terrain through a knowledge-driven machine learning approach
Atmospheric flows are governed by a broad variety of spatio-temporal scales, thus making real-time numerical modeling of such turbulent flows in complex terrain at high resolution computationally intractable. In this study, we demonstrate a neural network approach motivated by Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks to upscale low-resolution wind fields to generate high-resolution wind fields in an actual wind farm in Bessaker, Norway. The neural network-based model is shown t…

Wind farm on the north coast of Vancouver Island. You don't hear much about wind power in BC. Interesting to read this article from 2014, in light of the fact that last year BC Hydro needed to import power from Alberta because of drought. #RenewableEnergy #BritishColumbia

"Wind farm off the Massachusetts coast begins delivering steady flow of power"
#US #USA #America #Massachusetts

Wind farm off the Massachusetts coast begins delivering steady flow of power
Officials with Massachusetts and Vineyard Wind say the wind farm under construction off the state’s coast has begun delivering energy to the power grid from five of its planned 62 wind turbines. Officials said Thursday that the five turbines are operating at full capacity, generating 68 megawatts of power — enough to power about 30,000 homes. Company officials describe it as the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the nation to begin initial operations. The Vineyard Wind project is loca…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08711 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

A fast-running physics-based wake model for a semi-infinite wind farm
This paper presents a new generation of fast-running physics-based models to predict the wake of a semi-infinite wind farm, extending infinitely in the lateral direction but with finite size in the streamwise direction. The assumption of a semi-infinite wind farm enables concurrent solving of the laterally-averaged momentum equations in both streamwise and spanwise directions. The developed model captures important physical phenomena such as vertical top-down transport of energy into the farm, …

"The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come"
#US #USA #America #Wind

The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms. Danish wind energy developer Ørsted and the utility Eversource built a 12-turbine wind farm called South Fork Wind east of Montauk Point, New York. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul went to Long Island Thursday to announce that the turbines are delivering clean power to the local electric grid. It’s a turning point for the industry, but what’s…

"Denmark launches its biggest offshore wind farm tender"
#Denmark #Wind #WindTurbines #Renewables

Denmark launches its biggest offshore wind farm tender
The Danish Energy Agency on Monday launched its biggest tender for the construction of offshore wind farms, aimed at producing six gigawatts by 2030—more than double Denmark's current capacity.