Abstracted/indexed

As the offshore wind industry emerges on the U.S. East Coast, a comprehensive understanding of the wind resource – particularly extreme events – is vital to the industry's success. We leverage a year of two floating lidars data to quantify and characterize the frequent occurrence of high wind shear and low-level jet events, both of which will have considerable impact on turbine operation. We find that almost 100 independent long events occur throughout the year.

Detailed wind generation simulations of the 2028 Belgian offshore fleet are performed in order to quantify the distribution and extremes of power fluctuations on several time windows. A model validation with respect the operational data of the 2018 fleet shows that the methodology presented in this article is able to capture the distribution of wind power and its spatio-temporal characteristics. The results show that the standardized generation ramps are expected to be reduced in the future.