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).

SiteCoordinatesWind speed, m/sCV, %Power density, W/m2
LongLatDist, kmAnnual
Winter/summer
Annual
Monthly

I (198)56.483421.0166−17.9
8.6/7.0
3
9 (VI)
16 (IV, IX)
460
II (367)56.932520.939178.8
10.0/7.6
3
10 (XII)
17 (IV, IX)
647
III (160)56.393720.6858158.9
10.2/7.6
3
10 (I, VI)
18 (IV)
671
IV (362)56.932220.5285269.1
10.3/7.9
3
10 (I, VI)
18 (IV)
711

CV: coefficient of variation is calculated as standard deviation/mean * 100.