WIND GENERATION Clause Samples
WIND GENERATION. All references in this Article 5 to wind generation will be taken to include references to solar, tidal or other intermittent generation facilities in NS or adjacent waters with such changes as are required by the context.
WIND GENERATION. Wind energy, harvested with floating offshore wind turbines, represents a promising part of marine renewable energies. Numerical models, simulating loads on floating structures due to waves, currents and wind, are being developed and need validation through comparison with physical model tests. For this reason, numerous hydrodynamics facilities add wind generation to their wave basins. While constant wind generation provides the proper tension in the mooring system, the variation of the wind spectrum about its mean value may be significant for the response of a floating structure, as it influences the damping of the structure dynamics and its slow drift oscillations, especially at its natural periods. This chapter presents the wind generator systems used at the Ifremer wave basin and at ECN.