The map below
provides wind capacity factors by state for 2013 that were calculated from Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.
Not exact matches
* On page 88 of the IRP, Dominion
provides it own
capacity factor forecasts: solar 25 %, combined cycle gas 70 %, gas combustion turbines 10 %, nuclear 96 %, onshore
wind 42 %, offshore
wind 42 %.
WORLDWIDE: Recent reports of Statoil's Hywind Scotland project, the world's first commercial floating
wind farm, achieving 65 %
capacity factors over the winter have
provided another boost to the spirits of the floating -
wind community.
EIA
provides the following chart of
capacity factors for hydroelectric,
wind, and solar power worldwide.
* The large number of 660 kV
wind turbines operating at the ambitious
capacity factor of 35 % that would be required to
provide an equivalent number of kilowatt - hours of electricity (ignoring the intermittent availability of
wind energy); specifically:
Consider this reality: ONE (1) 450 MW gas - fired Combined Cycle Generating Unit located at New York City (where the power is needed in NYS)-- operating at 60 %
Capacity Factor, would
provide more power than all of NYS's 16 installed
wind factories combined, at 1/4 of the capital costs — and would have significantly reduced CO2 emissions and created far more jobs than all those
wind farms — without all the added costs (economic, environmental, and civil), and of all the transmission lines that must be added across the state to NYC.