A consideration on loss characteristics and annual capacity factor of offshore wind farm

Author

Inaba, Naoya ; Takahashi, Rion ; Tamura, Junji ; Kimura, Mamoru ; Komura, Akiyoshi ; Takeda, Kenji

Author_Institution

Kitami Inst. of Technol., Kitami, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

2022

Lastpage

2027

Abstract

It is important to evaluate the losses and output power for a large scale wind generation system such as offshore wind farm. This paper presents analyses about the output power and loss characteristics of an offshore wind farm composed of permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSG), power converters, and high voltage alternate current (HVAC) transmission cables. Annual output power, system losses, and capacity factor of the wind farm are calculated for some typical regions whose wind speed data are expressed by the probability density distribution function obtained from Local Area Wind Energy Prediction System (LAWEPS) in NEDO homepage in Japan.

Keywords

offshore installations; permanent magnet generators; power convertors; probability; submarine cables; synchronous generators; wind power plants; HVAC transmission cables; LAWEPS; NEDO homepage; PMSG; annual capacity factor; annual output power; high voltage alternate current transmission cables; large scale wind generation system; local area wind energy prediction system; loss characteristics; offshore wind farm; permanent magnet synchronous generators; power converters; probability density distribution function; wind speed data; Control systems; Generators; Propagation losses; Wind farms; Wind speed; Wind turbines; Capacity factor; HVAC transmission system; Offshore wind power; Permanent magnet synchronous generator; Power losses; Wind turbine generator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines (ICEM), 2012 XXth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marseille

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0143-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0141-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICElMach.2012.6350160

Filename

6350160