A review on the planning problem for the installation of offshore wind farms

authored by

Daniel Rippel, Nicolas Jathe, Matthias Becker, Michael Lütjen, Helena Szczerbicka, Michael Freitag

Abstract

Offshore wind farms provide a promising technology to produce renewable and sustainable energy. Nevertheless, the installation and operation of offshore wind farms pose a particular challenge to the planning and execution of operations. This article aims to identify requirements towards a decision support tool for the installation planning. Therefore, it provides a review of existing research in planning approaches and summarizes the overall planning problem. Afterwards this problem is decomposed into single tasks, according to their planning horizons. This decomposition shows a high level of interconnection between tasks across all levels. Higher levels provide constraints for the tasks on lower levels, while the results of these tasks are incorporated at higher levels. Finally, the article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to solve these tasks.

Organisation(s)

Human-Computer Interaction Section  
Institute of Systems Engineering

External Organisation(s)

University of Bremen

Type

Conference article

Journal

IFAC-PapersOnLine

Volume

52

Pages

1337-1342

No. of pages

6

ISSN

2405-8963

Publication date

25.12.2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.384 (Access: Open)