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Met nog steeds een gemiddelde van 50% Load factor op zee: good luck...
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Capacity Factor, wat net hetzelfde is.
Die 50% is absoluut geen enkel probleem, in het tegendeel zelfs.
Maar dan moet je wel weten wat deze factor juist is.
Zo eenvoudig is dat nu ook weer niet.
'So isn’t a higher capacity factor better?
No, it’s not that simple. If we could do what economists do, and just assume that all other things are equal, then yes, a higher capacity factor is better than a lower one – but all other things vary in important ways, so that would be a useless assumption. A developer could choose a turbine that gave them an 80% capacity factor, and they might save a bit of money on buying the turbine and contracting the grid connection, but the reduction in energy generated would be far greater, so the return on investment would be much worse. The very high capacity factor would be a bad business decision, for the developer and for the energy system as a whole. So maximising the capacity factor would be a bad decision: it would be almost all the same costs, but with a lot less energy generated.'
Ter info, de Hoover Dam waar ook stroom wordt gegenereerd heeft maar een Capacity Factor van 23%....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
http://energynumbers.info/capacity-factor-of-wind