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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Identification info
- 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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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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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.
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- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Place, Space and Communities Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Moore, D.
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- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2021-12-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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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
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Offshore wind resource
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Wind generation capacity resource
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Renewable energy
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Wind energy
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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EARTH SCIENCES
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Resource constraints
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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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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2022
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Operated on by
- Title
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Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps MapServer
- Citation identifier
- 146989
- Citation identifier
- e9477d50-f5a1-45b5-8fd4-fc8c16931711
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Operated on by
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Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps WMS
- Citation identifier
- 146990
- Citation identifier
- 8c47b55e-8d25-4855-89d1-7d679690c2d3
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- OnLine resource
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Download the data [16.2 MB]
Download the data [16.2 MB]
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tiff pdf
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Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps MapServer
Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps MapServer
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ESRI Map Service
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Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps WMS
Offshore Wind Capacity Factor Maps WMS
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OGC WMS
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Resource lineage
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<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
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
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urn:uuid/1fd0e866-39a3-4c74-8570-4642b28b2a9c
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GeoNetwork UUID
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- English
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- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Moore, D.
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Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/146703
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-06-22T02:18:17
- Date info (Revision)
- 2022-06-22T02:18:17
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551