How Offshore Wind Farms Send Electricity to Shore (HVAC vs HVDC)
A submarine cable behaves nothing like an overhead line. Why AC export runs out of room with distance, what HVDC buys, and where the crossover sits.
Updated 21 September 20267 min read
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Both technologies extract kinetic or potential energy from a moving fluid. The same handful of equations explains turbine sizing, siting, head, and why a small change in wind speed matters so much.
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A submarine cable behaves nothing like an overhead line. Why AC export runs out of room with distance, what HVDC buys, and where the crossover sits.
Updated 21 September 20267 min read
Two measurements decide a micro-hydro site. How head and flow become power, why gross head is never net head, and what a flow duration curve really tells you.
Updated 21 September 20267 min read
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