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Site selection for offshore wind farms along the Indian coast

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Title Site selection for offshore wind farms along the Indian coast
 
Creator Murali, R. Mani
Vidya, P.J.
Modi, Poonam
Kumar, Seelam Jaya
 
Subject Offshore wind farms
Wind velocity
West coast of India
Clean energy
GIS
 
Description 1401-1406
This
study deals with the location of the potential sites for offshore wind farms
and also deals with the feasibility of installing offshore wind farms through
scientific examination along the coast of India. Offshore wind energy is almost
unexplored along the Indian coast. Potential and feasible regions need to be
found and studied in detail. In this regard, few of the essential primary
parameters such as bathymetry, wind velocity, proximity to the coast, ports,
harbours, marine protected areas and marine sanctuaries were considered.
Suitable sites for offshore wind farms were demarcated in a GIS environment.
Weekly climatology (1999-2009) of wind speed was used to explore the seasonal
wind potential. GIS analysis has brought out potential wind farms regions of
32,000 km2 in north east Arabian Sea (Off Mumbai and Off Ratnagiri)
where bathymetry is in the range of 20 m to 75 m. Wind velocity ranges between
1.9 m/s to 10.2 m/s in these regions. The second potential site has been
identified at off Mangalore with 6490 km2. The third prospective
site is at Off Hooghly estuary.
 
Date 2016-06-27T05:05:17Z
2016-06-27T05:05:17Z
2014-07
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34460
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(7) [July 2014]