SELECTED ASPECTS OF BUILDING, OPERATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OFFSHORE WIND POWER ELECTRIC PLANTS

This paper describes essence of work of offshore wind power electric plants and crucial aspects of their building and operating. Prospects for development of global, European and domestic markets of offshore wind power industry have been delineated. A comparative analysis of environmental impact of an offshore and land-based 2MW wind power electric plant has been performed by using LCA method and Ecoindex - 99 (Ekowskaznik 99) modelling.