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Advantages Of Off Shore Wind Power

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This report provides an overview on wind energy. The advantages of off shore wind power over onshore wind power. It also compares the cost of offshore wind farms over other renewable energy sources. The amount of greenhouse gases produced by off shore wind is low compared to coal fired power stations.
The global overview suggests that wind power deployment is increasing over the year with Europe being the highest wind power generator.
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Wind power is important due to its long term strategy, since it uses natural energy and inexhaustible power. The location of wind energy is classified in two types: Off shore and on shore wind energy. Off shore wind power refers to the installation and production of wind farms on water bodies such as seas and oceans. Onshore wind power refers to wind energy generated on land.
The key features of wind energy are:
• Wind energy do not require any active intervention, such as mining, extraction or burning for their construction and operation
• Energy generated by wind is clean, environmentally friendly which does not release hydrocarbons or release any greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (Spiropoulou et al.).
• Uses comparatively less land compared to conventional sources of energy
Worldwide there is over two hundred thousand wind turbines installed which includes both on shore and offshore wind turbines. Europe is the global leader in wind production followed by china, Canada, Australia and US.
Offshore and Onshore wind Energy
Offshore Wind Energy is large and is faced by fewer obstacles to planning of site than onshore wind turbines. Onshore wind farms are usually economical compared to offshore wind farms in terms of installation, construction and maintenance. Offshore wind energy has comparatively less land price.
Advantages of offshore wind energy are:
• They require less land as compared to onshore wind farms and thus

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