Location: ES - Spain
This dataset represents the production of high voltage electricity at offshore grid-connected wind power plants in Spain in 2012. It includes operation and maintenance expenditures as well as infrastructure inputs. Wind load hours have been adapted to local conditions (see parameters).
At the moment, the offshore wind turbines are approximated with a 2MW wind turbine.
According to The Wind Power Database (2014), total installed wind capacity on-and offshore in Spain in the end of 2014 amounted to 23211.63 MW. Out of it, 0% were installed offshore, which are modelled with a 2 MW wind turbine. Percentages of the three onshore wind power plant classes modelled in ecoinvent referring to the total installed capacity (980 windfarms by 12/2014): <1MW 35.4%; 1-3MW 64.4%; >3MW 0.2% [Retreived from The Wind Power. 2014. Wind power and wind farms database. www.thewindpower.net, Status December 2014].
[This dataset is meant to replace the following datasets:]
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.