Reliability Evaluation of Offshore Wind Energy Networks and the Dutch Power System

Title

Reliability Evaluation of Offshore Wind Energy Networks and the Dutch Power System

 Author

Tuinema, B.W.

Contributor

Gibescu, M. (mentor)
Kling, W.L. (mentor)

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Electrical Sustainable Energy

 Date

2009-12-18

 Abstract

In the future, a large-scale expansion of offshore wind energy is expected in the Netherlands. For this large-scale expansion, a well-designed offshore network is needed. Different network configurations will lead to other availability of the offshore network and therefore also the offshore wind energy. This research studies the contribution of offshore wind energy to the reliability of the Dutch power system, taking into account the availability of the wind power production and the offshore network. In this research, different configurations for the offshore wind energy network are defined, like individually connected wind parks, clusters of wind parks of 1 GW, and two main clusters of offshore wind parks. For each configuration, the availability of the offshore network is determined. Then the offshore wind energy, the offshore network and the Dutch power system are combined into one reliability model for the combined system. Conclusions are drawn about the availability of the different offshore networks and the usefulness of the combined reliability model developed.

 Subject

network availability
offshore wind energy
reliability evaluation

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 Embargo date

2010-02-06

 Part of collection

Student theses

 Document type

master thesis

 Rights

(c) 2009 Tuinema, B.W.
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