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10.3.2 Wind regime
Figure 10.18 shows estimated duration curves for the wind power production at Horns
Rev in the North Sea and at Læsø in the Kattegat, based on site-specific measurements
of offshore wind conditions (from 15 May 1999 to 15 May 2000). The reference offshore
wind turbines are 2 MW turbines, where both rotor diameter and hub height are 80 m.
Figure 10.18 also shows the duration curve for wind power production at a windy
Danish land-based site (Thy) with a typical turbine layout. It follows that the capacity
utilisation factor is much larger offshore (0.45–0.50) than onshore (0.34).
Figure 10.19 illustrates the correlation between synchronous hourly wind power
production from wind farms in the Eltra area. As expected, the correlation factor
decreases with increased distance between production sites. In addition to this, the
correlation is in general higher between the production at two land-based sites than
between the generation at a land-based and an offshore site.
In addition, Figure 10.20 shows examples of correlation in time (autocorrelation) for
wind power production at Horns Rev and Læsø. The correlation curves are very similar
for the two sites; initially, the correlation declines relatively fast and, after about 15
hours, the correlation declines at a slower rate. The location of Horns Rev and Læsø is
shown in Figure 10.3.
Finally, Figure 10.21 shows the correlation between the production estimates for
Horns Rev and Læsø for varying time displacements. It can be seen that the most
significant correlation between the production of the two sites (Horns Rev, located
15 km into the North Sea northwest of Esbjerg, and the Læsø site, located south of Læsø
in the Kattegat, east of Jutland) is found by applying a ‘delay’ of approximately four
hours to the production estimates for Læsø, in comparison with Horns Rev. This is
consistent with the fact that weather fronts frequently pass Denmark from west to east.
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Figure 10.18 Duration curves for estimated offshore and land-based wind power production,
based on measurements recorded over a 12-month period (from 15 May 1999 to 15 May 2000):
Horns Rev (100 MW, offshore), Læsø (100 MW, offshore), Thy (100 MW, onshore)
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