Research Article
Assessment of the Present and Future Offshore Wind Power Potential: A Case Study in a Target Territory of the Baltic Sea Near the Latvian Coast
Table 4
Wind statistics at 100 m for 4 sites located in different distance from the sea coast (1981–2010).
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Site | Coordinates | Wind speed, m/s | CV, % | Power density, W/m2 | Long | Lat | Dist, km | Annual Winter/summer | Annual Monthly |
| I (198) | 56.4834 | 21.0166 | −1 | 7.9 8.6/7.0 | 3 9 (VI) 16 (IV, IX) | 460 | II (367) | 56.9325 | 20.9391 | 7 | 8.8 10.0/7.6 | 3 10 (XII) 17 (IV, IX) | 647 | III (160) | 56.3937 | 20.6858 | 15 | 8.9 10.2/7.6 | 3 10 (I, VI) 18 (IV) | 671 | IV (362) | 56.9322 | 20.5285 | 26 | 9.1 10.3/7.9 | 3 10 (I, VI) 18 (IV) | 711 |
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CV: coefficient of variation is calculated as standard deviation/mean * 100.
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