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The Search for Resources for New England’s Electricity Future
Offshore WindOffshore WindGreg Watson
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Electricity Restructuring RoundtableFebruary 10, 2006
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The Need for Change … and Choice•Global Population Growth
•Energy Consumption+50% by 2020•Fossil Reserves ?•Environmental Impact?•Alternatives ?
•Global Population Growth•Energy Consumption+50% by 2020•Fossil Reserves ?•Environmental Impact?•Alternatives ?
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Renewable Energy Trust
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Global Wind IndustryGlobal Wind Industry
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Wind Capacity / Cost TrendsWind Capacity / Cost Trendsin the United Statesin the United States
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Turbine SizeTurbine Size
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Countries 7
Projects 22
Turbines 367
Capacity 705 MW
Global Offshore Wind
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Exclusions 0 to 5 nm – 100%5 to 20 nm – 67% 20 to 50 nm – 33% Accounts for avian, marine mammal, view shed, restricted habitats, shipping routes & other habitats.
U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Resource
Resource not yet assessed
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New England 10 44 131 0
Mid-Atlantic 64 126 45 30
Great Lakes 16 12 194 0
California 0 0 48 168
Pacific Northwest 0 2 100 68
Total 90 183 518 266
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“…there may be, conservatively speaking, more than 100 gigawatts of capacity just off of New England”
New England Offshore Wind
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New England Offshore Wind
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David Garman, Acting Under Secretary, U.S. DOEThe Energy Daily, August 30, 2004
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11,455 MW Proposed Offshore 11,455 MW Proposed Offshore Through 2010 Through 2010
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Factors Influencing Future Development
Renewable Portfolio Standards Production Tax Credit
Extension Transmission Access Environmental Issues Air Emissions and Climate
Policy Wind-Hydro Integration Hydrogen Clean Water Offshore Development
Photo Gunnar Britse
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Offshore Wind Technology Challenges
The Key Differences between onshore and
offshore •Hydro-dynamic loads + wind loads
•Highly corrosive salt-laden air
•Dehumidification required to prevent equipment deterioration
•Remote, difficult access - autonomous operation essential
•Visual aesthetics and noise pollution less problematic than on land
•Turbine lower % of costs offshore
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Wind Turbines
Gearbox Epoxy-Glass
Composite Blades
Electrical Pitch Drives
Transformer & Electrical
Doubly-FedGenerator
Main Shaft & Bearing
Power ElectronicConverter
• GE 1.5 MW• 77 M Rotor Diameter • 50-100 M Tower• 98% Availability• Speed 10-20 RPM• Variable Pitch
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10 MW Turbine Concept
• 180 m rotor diameter• Downwind 2 blade machine• Flexible compliant blades• Flow controlled blades• High rpm/tip velocity > 100 m/s• Gearless direct drive• Space frame structure• Multivariable damping controls• 40 m water depth foundation• Hurricane ride-thru capability
Can we build it?Do the economics make sense?
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Wall Street Journal | Opinion The Katrina CrisisBy DANIEL YERGIN September 2, 2005
In the 1930s, drillers had put down wells in the waters off the beaches of Louisiana and Texas, to little effect. The first company to really go off shore -- that is, out of sight of land -- was the Oklahoma independent, Kerr-McGee, just after World War II.
The company figured the risk was worth it: There was not much competition and so the acreage was cheap. The risk lay in the fact that the technology did not yet really exist for building a platform, getting it into position, drilling into the ocean floor -- or even servicing a platform. All that needed to be invented.
In October 1947, Kerr-McGee hit oil in Block 32, 10 miles off Louisiana. That marked the beginning of what has turned into an extraordinary accomplishment of science and engineering. All the elements that were needed did get invented, reinvented, and reinvented yet again. The pace has only increased.
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Offshore Wind Collaborative
• Technology Development– Large-scale fully marinized
systems• Environmental Compatibility
– Minimize adverse impacts and changes
• Economic and Financial Viability– Reduce costs of offshore
systems and price of electricity to consumers
• Regulation and Government Policies– Siting and permitting processes
that gain public support
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[email protected] MW Bonus Middlegrunden
Farm in Copenhagen Harbor
25 MW GE Arklow BankFacility, Ireland
165 MW Nysted Offshore Wind Farm,Rødsand, Denmark