How Could Reservoir Engineers Harvest Wind Energy? Practical Parametrization Approaches For Wind Farm Layout Optimization
conference paper
Improving the layout of wind farms is one of the keys to increasing the cost-efficiency of offshore wind projects, which is paramount for the success and acceleration of a sustainable energy transition in our societies. Because field development planning and wind turbine placement share many similarities in terms of the decision-making context, we seek opportunities to leverage the know-how from subsurface field development practices to achieve better farm layout designs in offshore wind projects. In this paper, we present how stochastic optimization technology originally conceived to assist oil and gas practitioners in finding optimal field development strategies can be transferred to support decisions in offshore wind farm developments. We particularly focus on comparing different ways of parametrizing mathematically the wind farm layout. We illustrate the use of our framework in realistic case studies, showing that energy production can indeed be increased by optimizing the turbine placement while respecting all hard constraints imposed on the layout design. Finally, we analyze the results obtained to identify the most effective parametrization approach with respect to the shape of the wind farm license area and the presence of complex geometrical constraints. (C) EAGE Global Energy Transition, GET 2022.All rights reserved.
Topics
Decision makingElectric utilitiesOffshore oil well productionOffshore oil wellsOptimizationTechnology transferCost-efficiencyEnergy transitionsField developmentLayout designsOffshore wind projectsParametrizationsReservoir engineersSustainable energyWind farmWind farm layout optimizationsOffshore wind farms
TNO Identifier
982340
ISBN
9781713863618
Publisher
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE
Source title
3rd EAGE Global Energy Transition, GET 2022
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