Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Map

Monash University under commission of Geoscience Australia produced an offshore wind capacity factor map assessed at a 150m hub height applying the Bureau of Meteorology 10 year (2009-2018) BARRA hindcast model. The wind capacity factor has been calculated using the bounding curve of all scaled power curves for wind turbines available within the Open Energy Platform as of 2021. Average wind capacity factor values were also calculated for the Vestas V126 3.45MW and the GE V130 3.2MW wind turbines.

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Date (Creation)
2021-12-20T23:00:00
Date (Publication)
2022-06-22T02:29:13
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/146703

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/146703

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Purpose

The purpose is to support the identification of offshore wind resource magnitude which will constitute part of the assessment to develop offshore wind electricity generation projects.

Status
Completed
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Place, Space and Communities Division

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Point of contact

Moore, D.

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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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2021-12-15
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

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Product data repository: Various Formats

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Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • Offshore wind resource

Keywords

  • Wind generation capacity resource

Keywords

  • Renewable energy

Keywords

  • Wind energy

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • EARTH SCIENCES

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  • Published_External

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

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4.0

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Any
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2022

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Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps MapServer

Citation identifier
146989

Citation identifier
e9477d50-f5a1-45b5-8fd4-fc8c16931711

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https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/146989

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Title

Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps WMS

Citation identifier
146990

Citation identifier
8c47b55e-8d25-4855-89d1-7d679690c2d3

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https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/146990

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English
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UTF8

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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OnLine resource

Download the data [16.2 MB]

Download the data [16.2 MB]

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  • tiff pdf

OnLine resource

Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps MapServer

Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps MapServer

Distribution format

  • ESRI Map Service

OnLine resource

Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps WMS

Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps WMS

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  • OGC WMS

Resource lineage

Statement

<div>The Monash University project report (Offshore wind capacity factor maps - evaluating Australia's offshore wind resources potential) which is associated to this metadata record, details the method used to produce the offshore wind capacity factor maps. The method included geospatial alignment of the raw data, wind speed interpolation at 150m, calculation of the mean and standard deviation for hourly wind speeds at 150m from 2009 to 2018, the application of the methods of moments technique to calculate the shape and scale parameter of the wind Weibull distribution and calculation of a bounding curve for the power curves of wind turbines. </div><div><br></div><div>The maximum offshore wind generation potential was calculated through the generation of a bounding curve for the currently, as of 2021, wind turbine power curves within the Open Energy Platform. The Weibull distribution parameters and the bounding curve were then combined to calculate the wind capacity factor values.</div><div><br></div><div>Average wind capacity factor values were also calculated for the Vestas V126 3.45MW and the GE V130 3.2MW wind turbines.</div>

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/WGS 84 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 4326)

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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Unclassified

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GeoNetwork UUID

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English
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UTF8
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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Moore, D.

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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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Citation identifier
eCatId/146703

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1fd0e866-39a3-4c74-8570-4642b28b2a9c

Date info (Creation)
2022-06-22T02:18:17
Date info (Revision)
2022-06-22T02:18:17

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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EARTH SCIENCES

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