Preferred offshore power grids for wind energy

Preferred offshore power grids for wind energy

Getreuer, R.E.

Van der Meijden, M.A.M.M. (mentor)
Rueda Torres, J.L. (mentor)
Tuinema, B.W. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Electrical Sustainable Energy

2015-10-28

Offshore wind energy has become a very hot topic in northwest Europe, both from an industrial as from an academic point of view. Research on transmission grids for offshore wind energy focuses predominately on radial grids and HVDC. This study broadens this general scope by taken mesh grids and HVAC as the starting point. With the use of load flow analysis and net present value (NPV) calculations a preferred offshore power grid is defined based on failure rates and repair times of components, different grid configurations (i.e. radial/meshed), overloading of components, energy prices, wind energy price correlation, governmental policies and economical parameters like interest rates and investment time. In this way the result of the study is not only the economic but socio-economic preferred offshore grid for wind energy where the current Dutch offshore wind plans are used as the main case study.

offshore
network
offshore
wind
reliability
power system
HVAC

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2015 Getreuer, R.E.