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  • Available wind resources and the levelized cost of electricity in Europe
    (2021-01-25) Koivulehto, Elias
     Sähkötekniikan korkeakoulu | Master's thesis
    The purpose of this thesis was to analyse the technical and economic potential of onshore wind power in Europe. This was implemented by using turbine simulation and spatial datasets of wind resource parameters and land use restrictions to model land availability, installable capacity and annual generation. The economic potential was estimated by calculating the levelized cost of electricity for each site. It was found that Europe has a technical potential of 7758 GW and 25309 TWh and an economic potential of 3386.35 GW and 14871.38 TWh. Land use restrictions proved to be the biggest limitation to onshore wind and especially Central Europe would have very few sites left despite the good wind locations according to the results. In contrast, the Nordic countries proved to have a good potential in both land availability and wind resources.
  • Tuulienergian julkisuuskuva
    (2018-04-22) Koivulehto, Elias
     Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu | Bachelor's thesis