Assessment of Offshore Wind System Design, Safety, and Operation Standards

Sirnivas, Senu; Musial, Walt; Bailey, Bruce; Filippelli, Matthew

doi:10.2172/1122306

Title: Assessment of Offshore Wind System Design, Safety, and Operation Standards

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This report is a deliverable for a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) entitled National Offshore Wind Energy Resource and Design Data Campaign -- Analysis and Collaboration (contract number DE-EE0005372; prime contractor -- AWS Truepower). The project objective is to supplement, facilitate, and enhance ongoing multiagency efforts to develop an integrated national offshore wind energy data network. The results of this initiative are intended to 1) produce a comprehensive definition of relevant met-ocean resource assets and needs and design standards, and 2) provide a basis for recommendations for meeting offshore wind energy industry data and design certification requirements.

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Sirnivas, Senu ^[1]; Musial, Walt ^[1]; Bailey, Bruce ^[2]; Filippelli, Matthew ^[2]

National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
AWS Trupower LLC, Albany, NY (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind and Water Power Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1122306

Report Number(s):: NREL/TP-5000-60573

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 17 WIND ENERGY; OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY; MET-OCEAN RESOURCES; ASSESSMENT; NATIONAL OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY DATA NETWORK; STANDARDS; Wind Energy

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                    Sirnivas, Senu, Musial, Walt, Bailey, Bruce, and Filippelli, Matthew. Assessment of Offshore Wind System Design, Safety, and Operation Standards.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Sirnivas, Senu, Musial, Walt, Bailey, Bruce, and Filippelli, Matthew. 2014.  
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