Factors taken into account are: low thermal efficiency at low power; cycling of back up generators; energy needed to build and to install wind turbines;
energy needed for cabling and net adaptation; increase of fuel consumption through partial replacement of efficient generators by low - efficiency, fast reacting Open Cycle Gas Turbines.
Not exact matches
A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an
energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which
needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing
cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently
for natural methane gas.
Results of the study — which is backed by offshore wind developers EnBW, Engie, Eolfi, E.ON, Iberdrola, Innogy, Kyuden Mirai
Energy, Orsted, Shell, Statoil, Vattenfall, and Wpd — included that dynamic
cables to export power back to shore represent a «significant bottleneck»; «dedicated» mooring solutions would be
needed by full - scale floating wind farm units; and that infrastructure and logistics will be «critical» to cost reduction efforts and opening new markets
for the sector, according to scoping projects run by Petrofac, Ramboll and London Offshore Consultants.
Development of high voltage direct current
cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC
cables is higher than
for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the
cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the
energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the
need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days
there is not
need for wireless charging — it wastes
energy and does nt get rid of the
cable — it creates more problems