The proliferation of countries and regions with 100% clean or renewable energy targets necessitates an analysis to determine the number of generating units and storage needed to meet real‐time electricity demand on the electric grid. The coastal areas of New England have the capacity to produce a large percentage of the region's energy needs with offshore wind turbines. Here we model offshore wind turbine power production data using MERRA‐2 reanalysis and lidar wind speed data sets. We compare this power production to the New England hourly grid demand over the course of one year. 2,000 10 MW offshore wind turbines could satisfy New England's grid demand for about 37% of the year. When combined with 55 GWh of storage, 2,000 turbines could satisfy grid demand for about 72% of the year.

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新英格兰需要多少台海上风力发电机？

具有100％清洁或可再生能源目标的国家和地区的泛滥，需要进行分析以确定满足电网实时电力需求所需的发电机组数量和存储量。新英格兰沿海地区有能力利用海上风力发电机满足该地区大部分能源需求。在这里，我们使用MERRA-2再分析和激光雷达风速数据集对海上风力涡轮机发电数据进行建模。我们将这一发电量与一年内新英格兰每小时的电网需求进行比较。2000台10兆瓦海上风力涡轮机可以满足新英格兰每年约37％的电网需求。如果加上55 GWh的存储容量，则2,000台涡轮机可满足每年约72％的电网需求。