The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), is providing technical assistance to identify and delineate leasing areas for offshore wind energy development within the Atlantic Coast Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) established by BOEM. This report focuses on NREL's development and evaluation of the delineations for the New Jersey (NJ) WEA. The overarching objective of this study is to develop a logical process by which the New Jersey WEA can be subdivided into non-overlapping leasing areas for BOEM's use in developing an auction process in a renewable energy lease sale. NREL identified a selection of leasing areas and proposed delineation boundaries within the established NJ WEA. The primary output of the interagency agreement is this report, which documents the methodology, including key variables and assumptions, by which the leasing areas were identified and delineated. As part of the evaluation, NREL researchers: 1. Developed a preliminary process and criteria to create three to five leasing areas within the original BOEM NJ WEA. 2. Presented their methodology for analysis and technical approach at a New Jersey renewable energy task force meeting on December 18, 2012 (Musial and Elliott 2012). 3. Reviewed and assessed the proposed development parameters provided in 11 responses to the 2011 New Jersey Call for Information and Nominations. 4. Revised the methodology for a modified NJ WEA, hereafter called the New Jersey area of analysis (developed by BOEM) to address feedback from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), U.S. Coast Guard, and other task force reviewers. 5. Identified three options for delineating the NJ area of analysis (Figure ES1) into two, three, and four leasing areas, respectively, and conducted analyses to compare and evaluate the different delineation scenarios. 6. Performed further analyses for the four leasing area delineation options on the effect of different turbine spacing scenarios on the wake losses and development potential. 7. Evaluated potential development scenarios using 500-megawatt (MW)-unit wind plants and evaluated the wake effects for a single wind facility versus full development (500-MW wind plants in all four leasing areas) for different spacing scenarios. 8. Prepared this report summarizing the NREL technical approach and final recommendations to BOEM for leasing area delineations within the NJ area of analysis and the effects of different turbine spacing scenarios on potential development and energy production. v This report is available at no cost from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at www.nrel.gov/publications.

India is one of the largest wind energy markets in the world. The first Indian state to install a wind power project was Gujarat in 1986. In February 2013, the installed wind capacity in Gujarat was 3,093 MW. Multiple contradicting wind resource assessments exist for India. Owing to the uncertainty around these existing wind energy assessments, this analysis uses the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to simulate the wind at current hub heights for one year to provide more precise estimates of wind resources in Gujarat. The WRF model allows for accurate simulations of winds near the surface and at heights important for wind energy purposes. While previous resource assessments published wind power density, we focus on average wind speeds, which can be converted to wind power densities by the user with methods of their choice.

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