This page shows daily plots of forecast grid data for offshore wind energy in Belgium, year 2017. We use quarter hour forecast data from Elia, which is corrected with up-scaled measurement data for the monitored capacity. The monitored capacity can deviate from the installed capacity; and it can change over time. Therefore values normalized to kWh/day per kWpeak, and also hourly fluctuations are provided. In general grid forecast data is more accurate than weather re-analysis from satellite data.

offshore	2017	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Monitored capacity (GWpeak)	0.83	0.71	0.73	0.77	0.8	0.83	0.87	0.88	0.88	0.88	0.88	0.88	0.88
Cumulative energy (GWh)	2788	197	437	704	834	1001	1210	1409	1568	1753	2129	2420	2788
Monthly energy (GWh)	2788	197	240	268	130	166	209	199	159	184	376	291	369
Normalized cumulative sum (kWh/kWpeak)	3359	277	605	955	1117	1318	1560	1787	1968	2178	2607	2939	3359
Normalized monthly energy (kWh/kWpeak)	3359	277	328	350	163	200	242	227	181	210	429	332	420
Normalized cumulative distribution [%]	100 %	8.25 %	18.0 %	28.4 %	33.3 %	39.2 %	46.4 %	53.2 %	58.6 %	64.9 %	77.6 %	87.5 %	100 %
Normalized monthly distribution [%]	100 %	8.25 %	9.76 %	10.4 %	4.85 %	5.97 %	7.21 %	6.76 %	5.4 %	6.26 %	12.8 %	9.87 %	12.5 %
Capacity factor [%]	38.3 %	37.2 %	48.8 %	47.0 %	22.6 %	26.9 %	33.6 %	30.5 %	24.4 %	29.2 %	57.5 %	46.1 %	56.5 %

Average hourly data:
The plots below show hourly data, normalized to kiloWatt per installed capacity expressed in kiloWatt peak. The Elia grid data contains four data points per hour, these are averaged to represent a single hour on the plot. So the hour 14 combines data points from 14:00, 14:15, 14:30 and 14:45 for example. In the legend we display the avarage daily generated energy in kWhpeak per month. The maximum achievable energy per day is 24 kWh per kWpeak of installed capacity, since there are 24 hours in a day. Fluctuations are summarized with boxplots for the entire year and per month.

Acknowledgement: many thanks to Elia for open access to offshore wind grid data of Belgium at www.elia.be/en/grid-data. This data is licensed under the Elia Open Data License, which uses the CC BY-4.0 public license, and is governed by Belgian law.

User guide: most of the figures on this page are dynamic boxplots. A png image can be downloaded with the pop-up window at the right upper side. These functions require that javascript is enabled. Boxplots are explained here.