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SUBMITTER: Rose S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3295275 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rose Stephen S Jaramillo Paulina P Small Mitchell J MJ Grossmann Iris I Apt Jay J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120213 9
The U.S. Department of Energy has estimated that if the United States is to generate 20% of its electricity from wind, over 50 GW will be required from shallow offshore turbines. Hurricanes are a potential risk to these turbines. Turbine tower buckling has been observed in typhoons, but no offshore wind turbines have yet been built in the United States. We present a probabilistic model to estimate the number of turbines that would be destroyed by hurricanes in an offshore wind farm. We apply thi ...[more]