Perspectives on offshore wind farms development in Great Lakes

作者：Soudeh Afsharian,Bahareh Afsharian,Maryam Shiea

摘要：Global warming emissions and carbon dioxide caused by human activities are overloading our atmosphere which cause web of significant and harmful impacts.There are little to no global warming emissions by renewable energy.To date,offshore wind farms generally have been installed in shallow ocean-coastal areas.The Great Lakes with freshwater have shown high potential for installing offshore wind farms,and significant advantages.There are more than 5 offshore windfarms in progress at the end of 2019 in Great Lakes.The object of this study is to present the capacity and prospects of offshore wind farms development in Great Lakes.Also,the power of wind farms,barriers,issues,wind vision,advantages and disadvantages,the criteria related to the location of the offshore wind farms in Great Lakes have been analyzed and presents statistics for decision-makers,interested communities,investors and academic researchers.This paper is among the rare works that have been done in aspect of statistical and data gathering for the wind offshore in Great Lakes as the moratorium in the Canadian side and the difficulties in obtaining permissions in the American side put the offshore wind sector on pause for a long time,and recently(since 2016)it started to get some momentum.The research has been conducted based on the analysis of acts,regulations,the subject’s literature and information from websites.

發文機構：Lassonde School of Engineering School of Engineering Captain climate Co.

關鍵詞：WindturbinesWindenergyGlobalwarmingGreatLakesWindvision

分類號： P73[天文地球—海洋科學]