The UK's first offshore wind farm will be built off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, in July 2000. This paper …

The interest for the exploitation of the offshore wind energy is growing in Europe, where man land use is very high … resulting in strong limitation to the installation of onshore wind farms. The today offshore operating wind power is 12 MW, with …

In last two years offshore wind energy is becoming a focal point of national and non national organizations … end of 1997 on global climate change. North Europe is particularly interested in offshore for the limited land areas still … Commission; a significant percentage (25%) could be sited offshore up to 10 000 MW, because of close saturation of the land sites …

A general overview of the offshore wind energy activity is reported for the Mediterranean and other European Seas. …

the turbines to better wind conditions. After the shift from onshore to offshore areas, there has been an effort to move … offshore wind power and electricity from a natural gas combined cycle is presented. The results indicate similar environmental … impacts of electricity production using floating wind power plants as using non-floating offshore wind power plants. The most …

opportunities for validation. Both onshore and offshore wind distributions are estimated using the MMWD model. Recorded wind data …

Horns Rev I offshore wind farm. The evaluation is performed on data classified in four different atmospheric stability …