MAPPING OCEAN WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL AROUND SULAWESI AND MALUKU ISLANDS

摘要

In order to harvest ocean wind energy around Sulawesi and Maluku Islands, several studies have been conducted tornassess the use of a mobile floating structure (MFS) in the sea areas. From the studies, the monthly locations of the MFSrnwere determined by computing one particular location on each sea areas. The MFS locations were determined to be thernlocations with highest energy density every month. However, in order to obtain more optimal results, an interpolationrnmethod need to be implemented to determine the energy density covering all sea areas. In the present study, Krigingrnmethod is adopted to interpolate wind energy density on all areas based on the results obtained previously. Energyrndensity maps are then drawn using software packages called ArcGIS and ArcMAP. Based on these maps, the locationsrnof the MFS every month can be determined more accurately.