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Heterogeneous Returns to Scale of Wind Farms in Northern Europe

Benini, Giacomo 1; Carvalho, Maria; Gaudard, Ludovic; Jochem, Patrick; Madani, Kaveh
1 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

The present paper tries to identify the optimal size of a wind farm using North European data. An empirical analysis of 61 sites constructed between 2004 and 2014 suggests that economies-of-scale are highly heterogeneous across on-shore and off-shore projects. A Varying Coefficient Model captures such diversity by making the impact of the farm site on the amount of its potential capacity a non-linear function of the number of installed turbines. The resulting scale elasticities suggest that small on-shore farms have a bigger per-turbines output than off-shore ones, while the opposite is true for big projects.


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DOI: 10.5547/01956574.40.SI1.gben
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Industriebetriebslehre und Industrielle Produktion (IIP)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 09.2019
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0195-6574
KITopen-ID: 1000089380
Erschienen in The energy journal
Verlag International Association for Energy Economics
Band 40
Heft Special Issue
Nachgewiesen in Dimensions
Web of Science
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