Optimal Wind Farm Cabling

Xuan Gong; Stefanie Kuenzel; Bikash Pal

Optimal Wind Farm Cabling

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Abstract

Wind farm cable length has a direct impact on the project cost, reliability, and electrical losses. The optimum cable layout results in a lower unit cost of generating electricity offshore. This paper explores three cabling structures: the string structure, ring structure, and multiloop structure on a three-dimensional seabed The newly proposed multiloop structure increases reliability and proves to be most economic when the failure rate and mean time to repair of cables are relatively high. Particle swarm optimization is used to find the optimal substation location that minimizes the overall cable distance.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Aug 2020
Event	IEEE PES GM 2020 - Montreal, moved to virtual, Montreal, Canada Duration: 3 Aug 2020 → 6 Aug 2020 https://pes-gm.org/2020/

Conference

Conference	IEEE PES GM 2020
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	3/08/20 → 6/08/20
Internet address	https://pes-gm.org/2020/

Keywords

string structure
ring structure
multi-loop structure
3D seabed
particle swarm optimization

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