Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power

Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power

The available wind power resource worldwide at altitudes between 500 and 12,000 m above ground is assessed for the first time. Twenty-eight years of wind data from the reanalyses by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Energy are analyzed and interpolated to study...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 307 - 319
Main Authors: Archer, Cristina L., Caldeira, Ken
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-06-2009
Subjects:
Altitude
Electricity generation
Energy
Generators
high altitude
intermittency
jet streams
reanalyses
Wind power
United States > US
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Summary:The available wind power resource worldwide at altitudes between 500 and 12,000 m above ground is assessed for the first time. Twenty-eight years of wind data from the reanalyses by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Energy are analyzed and interpolated to study geographical distributions and persistency of winds at all altitudes. Furthermore, intermittency issues and global climate effects of large-scale extraction of energy from high-altitude winds are investigated.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en20200307