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Publikováno v:
Wind Energy, Vol 24, Iss 9, Pp 974-990 (2021)
Abstract The costs of offshore wind are decreasing rapidly. However, there is a need to better understand the key drivers behind these cost reductions. New environmental regulations, economic policies, technological advancements and financing structu
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Publikováno v:
Renewable Energy
Concentrated solar power plants using molten salts as heat transfer and storage fluid have emerged as the preferred commercial solution for solar thermal electricity in central receiver technology. Despite their ability to store large amounts of ther
Publikováno v:
Borràs mora, E, Spelling, J & Van Der Weijde, A 2019, ' Benchmarking the PAWN Distribution-based Method Against the Variance-based Method in Global Sensitivity Analysis: Empirical Results ', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 122, 104556 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104556
The search for new and more efficient global sensitivity analysis methods has led to the development of the PAWN distribution-based method. This method has been proven to overcome one of the main limitation of variance-based methods – the moment in
Publikováno v:
Energy Procedia. 69:1160-1170
A novel solar power plant concept is presented, based on the use of a dense particle suspension as the heat transfer fluid which allows receiver operation at high temperatures (above 650 °C), opening the possibility of using high-efficiency power ge
Publikováno v:
Solar Energy. 114:378-396
The solar receiver is one of the key components of hybrid solar micro gas-turbine systems, which would seem to present a number of advantages when compared with Stirling engine based systems and ph ...
Publikováno v:
Energy Procedia. 49:1737-1746
To optimize the start-up schedules of steam turbines operating in concentrating solar power plants, accurate predictions of the temperatures within the turbine are required. In previous work by the authors, thermal models of steam turbines have been
Publikováno v:
Energy Procedia. 49:1642-1651
The integration of thermal energy storage systems in concentrating solar thermal power plants allows power production to be shifted from times where there is low demand to periods where electricity prices are higher. Although increasing the total inv
Publikováno v:
Borràs mora, E, Spelling, J, Van Der Weijde, A & Pavageau, E-M 2019, ' The Effects of Mean Wind Speed Uncertainty on Project Finance Debt Sizing for Offshore Wind Farms ', Applied Energy, vol. 252 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113419
Financing costs for offshore projects depend, among many other variables, on the quality of mean wind speed predictions. Financial institutions determine the amount of debt that can be reasonably supported by the project, based on probabilistic cash
Publikováno v:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1356:012026
Offshore wind farms are subjected to a maximum export capacity set in their connection agreement with the Transmission System Operator (TSO). Generators can export up to their contracted maximum export capacity, with any additional generation curtail