STUDY ON ACCESSIBILITY AND DESIGN CONDITIONS OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES AROUND JAPANESE COASTAL AREA

Abstract

 This paper introduces results obtained from offshore observation tower system off the Kita-Kyusyu city, by comparing results obtained from other Japanese NOWPHAS stations. There exists a great difference of the accessibility between the Pacific side and the Sea of Japan side, in both winter and summer seasons. Co-occurrence of the waves and winds was also investigated based on offshore simultaneous observed data. A simple combination method of both the action was proposed.