Offshore wind costs are inflating?
This data-file tabulates the capex costs of 35 offshore wind projects in the UK, with 8.5GW of capacity, which have been installed since the year 2000. $399.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
Offshore wind: will costs follow Moore’s Law?
Some commentators expect the levelized costs of offshore wind to fall another two-thirds by 2050. The justification is some eolian equivalent of Moore’s Law. Our 16-page report draws five contrasts….
Offshore wind: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe?
This 14-page report re-visits our wind industry outlook. Our long-term forecasts are reluctantly being revised downwards by 25%, especially for offshore wind, where levelized costs have reinflated by 30% to…
Windy physics: how is power of a wind turbine calculated?
This data-file is an overview of wind power physics. Specifically, how is the power of a wind turbine calculated, in MW, as a function of wind speed, blade length, blade…
Inter-correlations between offshore wind farms?
The purpose of this data-file is to examine the correlations between different wind farms’ generation rates. Specifically, we obtained and cleaned-up half-hour-by-half-hour power generation data from c20 wind assets around…
Offshore vessels: fuel consumption?
…industries. Offshore construction vessels are especially used in the offshore wind industry, where installation costs for a large-scale wind project will average aroud $1,000/kW spread across 60-100 vessels during peak…
Wind power: energy costs, energy payback and EROEI?
Wind power energy paybacks? This data-file estimates 3MWH of energy is consumed in manufacturing and installing 1kW of offshore wind turbines, the energy payback time is usually around 1-year, and…
Energy Technologies and Energy Transition
…much wind and solar fit the optimal grid? (Feb-2020, 24-pages) Solar energy: is 50% efficiency now attainable? (July-20, online) Two Majors’ Secret Race for the Future of Offshore Wind? (Apr-2019,…
Cable installation vessels: costs and operating parameters?
…capabilities. And yet the contract awards that we have aggregated for offshore cable installation have hardly changed. Laying the inter-cabling at an offshore wind project might cost $0.5M/km, offshore interconnectors…
Onshore wind: the economics?
…up-scaling, spreading relatively fixed costs across larger turbines and larger overall assets. For comparison, our economic model for offshore wind projects is linked here. The levelized costs of onshore wind…