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This would be an OK offshore wind farm by American standards, but in the grand scheme of things it's not that big. Under GraniteGeek's trademarked unit of power measure - the Seabrook - this wind farm would have an annual output of 3/1000ths as much as the Seabrook nuclear plant.
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9 months ago
In any event, here's another way of looking at the issue - call it The Merrimack:
478 MW x 8760 x 0.85 (capacity factor) = 3,559,188 megawatt hours/year.
Your 1 mw wind plant with a capacity factor of 0.33 has an output that is is 0.00081 the size of Merrimack Station.
Perhaps easier to understand is that it would require approx 1,231 one mw wind turbines to replace Merrimack Station.
9 months ago
9 months ago
As far as an "OK offshore wind farm by American standards", as we have yet to build one this seems pretty irrelevant. You're right about siting issues and distance to shore/connecting to the grid but as for the size of the project - the majority of offshore projects currently in development (Europe and US) are several hundred megawatts on average.
9 months ago