Reliability of Collection Grids for Large Offshore Wind Parks

Author

Sannino, Ambra ; Breder, Henrik ; Nielsen, Erik Koldby

Author_Institution

ABB Corp. Res., Vasteras

fYear

2006

fDate

11-15 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Offshore wind parks (WPs) require huge investments and it is crucial to maximize the power produced by the park in order for the investment to pay back within reasonable time. Accessibility to the WP may be limited during certain periods of the year due to adverse weather conditions, which makes repair times very long. In this paper, availability of large offshore WPs is analyzed for three different topologies of collection grid within the WP. The energy not produced due to outages in the WP is calculated and sensitivity of the results to variations in failure rate and mean time to repair of cables and apparatus included is investigated

Keywords

failure analysis; investment; maintenance engineering; offshore installations; power generation reliability; power grids; sensitivity analysis; wind power plants; WP; adverse weather conditions; apparatus repairing; cables repairing; collection grids reliability; failure rate; investments; offshore wind parks; sensitivity; Availability; Cables; Costs; Europe; Investments; Mirrors; Power system reliability; Redundancy; Topology; Wind energy; availability; distribution systems; redundancy; reliability; wind power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, 2006. PMAPS 2006. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

978-91-7178-585-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PMAPS.2006.360415

Filename

4202378