Title :
Cost benefit analysis of redundancy levels of large, offshore windfarm equipment
Author :
Luckett, M.J. ; Jhutty, A.S.
Author_Institution :
London Power Assoc., London, UK
Abstract :
The variability of the power generated by offshore windfarms provides an additional complexity to the assessment of reliability and appropriate redundancy levels of the primary equipment used to connect the windfarms to the transmission network. This paper will show the cost benefit of various redundancy levels of primary equipment such as transformers, cables and equipment associated with HVDC schemes and the configuration arrangements of the HVDC schemes. .
Keywords :
offshore installations; power generation reliability; wind power plants; HVDC schemes; cables; cost benefit analysis; offshore windfarm equipment; primary equipment; redundancy levels; reliability; transformers; transmission network; HVDC; offshore; redundancy; wind;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability of Transmission and Distribution Networks (RTDN 2011), IET Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2011.0505
