Offshore Transmission Technology

Accurate and up-to-date Geographic Information System (GIS) and Techno Economic (TE) tools are pertinent to helping to develop the renewable energy sector. This paper reviews the state of the art in existing GIS and TE tools for renewable energy and proposes a methodology to develop a coupled GIS-TE software tool that is geared specifically to Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) applications and bespoke to Irish and Western UK waters. Methods for approaching GIS and TE analysis within existing tools for renewable energy are presented and compared. Many existing tools of this nature have some interesting functionalities, but most are unsuitable for MRE; are limited by a lack of information on both the technology and the site; and focus solely either on GIS or TE aspects of analysis. Additionally, almost all of those with a TE focus are not open access. The proposed tool aims to incorporate increased resolution and site relevance of resource data; the most up-to-date geospatial data for site selection; and will provide site specific TE indicators and recommendations for contemporary MRE devices. The result will be the development an open-access GIS-TE software tool for MRE.

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“…73 More extensive reviews of existing offshore wind TE models which may be of interest include. 69,72–74…”

Section: Techno Economic Approaches and Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of geographic information system (GIS) and techno economic (TE) software tools for renewable energy and methodology to develop a coupled GIS-TE software tool for marine renewable energy (MRE)

O’Connell

Murphy

McAuliffe

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M:

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“…A review by Hofmann in 2011 [123] covered a comprehensive list of decision support models for OWF, which was updated recently by Anaya-Lara et al [124]. Shafiee and Sørensen also provide a recent review of maintenance optimisation and inspection planning literature [125].…”

Section: Oandm Planning Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Predictive and Prescriptive Offshore Wind Farm Operation and Maintenance

et al. 2022

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Offshore wind farms are a rapidly developing source of clean, low-carbon energy and as they continue to grow in scale and capacity, so does the requirement for their efficient and optimised operation and maintenance. Historically, approaches to maintenance have been purely reactive. However, there is a movement in offshore wind, and wider industry in general, towards more proactive, condition-based maintenance approaches which rely on operational data-driven decision making. This paper reviews the current efforts in proactive maintenance strategies, both predictive and prescriptive, of which the latter is an evolution of the former. Both use operational data to determine whether a turbine component will fail in order to provide sufficient warning to carry out necessary maintenance. Prescriptive strategies also provide optimised maintenance actions, incorporating predictions into a wider maintenance plan to address predicted failure modes. Beginning with a summary of common techniques used across both strategies, this review moves on to discuss their respective applications in offshore wind operation and maintenance. This review concludes with suggested areas for future work, underlining the need for models which can be simply incorporated by site operators and integrate live data whilst handling uncertainties. A need for further focus on medium-term planning strategies is also highlighted along with consideration of the question of how to quantify the impact of a proactive maintenance strategy.

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“…The VSC control modes are mainly active power control or DC voltage control and reactive power control or AC voltage control. The choice of the control modes depends on the application of the VSC-HVDC and on the type of the AC grids to which they are connected [22]. However, a VSC responsible for DC voltage control is required to ensure the power balance between the sending and receiving converters.…”

Section: Ac Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

General form of consensus optimization for distributed OPF in HVAC-VSC-HVDC systems

Aragüés‐Peñalba

Caire

Sumper

et al. 2020

International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems

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Offshore Transmission Technology

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A review of geographic information system (GIS) and techno economic (TE) software tools for renewable energy and methodology to develop a coupled GIS-TE software tool for marine renewable energy (MRE)

A review of geographic information system (GIS) and techno economic (TE) software tools for renewable energy and methodology to develop a coupled GIS-TE software tool for marine renewable energy (MRE)

A Review of Predictive and Prescriptive Offshore Wind Farm Operation and Maintenance

General form of consensus optimization for distributed OPF in HVAC-VSC-HVDC systems

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