Location: CA-QC - Canada, Québec
This dataset represents the production of high voltage electricity at onshore grid-connected wind power plants with a capacity of more than 3MW (3MW excluded) in Quebec (Canada) in 2014. It includes operation and maintenance expenditures as well as infrastructure inputs. Wind load hours have been adapted to local conditions (see parametres).
At the moment, the class of onshore >3MW wind turbines is approximated with a 4.5 MW onshore wind turbine consisting of the infrastructure datasets for the 'wind turbine construction' and the 'network connection construction'. The wind turbine's parts are defined to be everything except for the network connection, i.e. rotor, nacelle, tower, and foundation.
According to The Wind Power Database (2014), total installed wind capacity on-and offshore worldwide in the end of 2014 amounted to 312228.392 MW. According to The Wind Power Database 2014, around 3% of the capacity is installed offshore. Percentages of the three onshore wind power plant classes modelled in ecoinvent referring to the total installed capacity (12015 wind farms by 12/2014): <1MW 14.5%; 1-3MW 70.6%; >3MW 11.9%. These values are based on 54 countries analysed in the database: AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CN, CY, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, ID, IE, IN, IR, IT, JP, KR, LT, LU, LV, MK, MT, MX, MY, NL, NO, PE, PL, PT, RO, RS, RU, SA, SE, SI, SK, TH, TR, TW, TZ, UA, US, ZA. [Retreived from The Wind Power. 2014. Windpower 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.
