Harvesting offshore energy through the combination of different generation technologies: Hybrid Offshore Farms

Abstract

When thinking about offshore energy, wind power comes directly to our minds. In fact, this technology is the major responsible for offshore energygeneration, being already on a commercial state. From the 2000s decade onwards, wind power industry had a massive and sustained growth, with great emphasis on Europe. Portugal is one of the good practice examples regarding wind power integration - which, allied with favourable hydro power, allowed achieving considerable share of renewable integration in its electricity mix. Many other countries are pursuing wind power generation and, more recently, photovoltaic (PV) generation to attain the so-called sustainable electricity by reducing the fossil-based fuels need and consequently CO2 emissions.

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