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RHODE ISLAND WIND POWER RESOURCE ASSESSMENT Annette Grilli Ocean Engineering University Of Rhode Island [email protected] Team: Ocean Engineering Student: Christopher O’Reilly GIS: Christopher Damon Wind Field data: John Merrill, GSO Birds assessment : Peter Patton and Kristopher Winiarski Senior Advisor: Malcolm Spaulding Outreach: CRC team , Teresa Crean and Jennifer Mc Cann
Conceptual Framework for Energy Resource Assessment
Source: Assessment of Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology: Interim Letter Report http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13202
Theoretical Wind Resource
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Technical resource Cut-in, Cut-off, Rated Speed
Betz Law Any device can only capture 59 % of available energy
Wind Speed (m/s)
Power (W)
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Vertical Profile And Shear Coefficient
Report to the Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority (VOWDA) Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy December 7, 2010
Practical Wind Power
Technological Constraints
Wind Power
Ecosystem Services Constraints
Social constraints
Environmental constraints
Ecosystem Services
Reference: Karen McLeod and Heather Leslie (2009)
Modified .
• Food:Agriculture, Aquaculture • Energy • Services • Other goods
Provisioning
• Recreation • Aesthetics • Historic • Cultural
Cultural
• Biological regulation • Biodiversity maintenance • Endangered species maintenance
Regulating
Resources Cost
Technological cost
Environmental cost
Social cost
Wind Power (WP)
Exclusionary zones E.G: • Airport restriction
area (FAA)
Typology of open space
ZONES or
Social and Environmental
Landscape Regions
Assess the sensitivity of each zone to
wind farm impact
WIND FARM IMPACT ZONES
Resources and
constraints optimization WIND FARM
SITING INDEX
Set back rules Noise Flicker
Visual Impact
Tolerance level
User Input
Wind Farm Siting Index
Wind Farm Impact Zones Homogeneous
area zone
• E.g: Forest
Ecosystem services
• Regulating: • Biodiversiy • Integrity/No Fragmentation
• Cultural: • Recreation
Ecosystem services
sensitivity to wind farm
• Maximum value = Destruction of the ecosystem service
• Minimum value = No impact