Aspects of Relevance in Offshore Wind Farm Reliability Assessment

Author

Negra, Nicola Barberis ; Holmstrøm, Ole ; Bak-Jensen, Birgitte ; Sorensen, Poul

Author_Institution

Elsam Eng. A/S, Fredericia

Volume

22

Issue

1

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

166

Abstract

The worldwide increase of installed wind power capacity demands the inclusion of wind farm (WF) models into power system reliability assessment. This paper looks at this issue from available literature, and presents a list of factors that highly influence offshore WF generation. An example of sequential Monte Carlo simulation applied to an offshore WF is described using a new synthetic wind-speed generator. The simulation includes some of the reliability factors highlighted in the paper and their influence on reliability assessment

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; electric generators; offshore installations; power generation reliability; wind power plants; offshore wind farm reliability assessment; sequential Monte Carlo simulation; wind power capacity demands; wind-speed generators; Costs; Economic forecasting; Power engineering and energy; Power generation economics; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Power system security; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Wind farms; Monte Carlo methods; offshore wind farm; power system reliability; wind speed time series;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TEC.2006.889610

Filename

4105993