On the Impact of using Mixed Integer Programming Techniques on Real-world Offshore Wind Parks

Martina Fischetti, David Pisinger

2017

Abstract

Wind power is a leading technology in the transition to sustainable energy. Being a new and still more competitive field, it is of major interest to investigate new techniques to solve the design challenges involved. In this paper, we consider optimization of the inter-array cable routing for offshore wind farms, taking power losses into account. Since energy losses in a cable depend on the load (i.e. wind), cable losses are estimated by considering a possibly large number wind scenarios. In order to deal with different wind scenarios efficiently we used a precomputing strategy. The resulting optimization problem considers two objectives: minimizing immediate costs (CAPEX) and minimizing costs due to power losses. This makes it possible to perform various what-if analyses to evaluate the impact of different preferences to CAPEX versus reduction of power losses. Thanks to the close collaboration with a leading energy company, we have been able to report results on a set of real-world instances, based on six existing wind parks, studying the economical impact of considering power losses in the cable routing design phase.

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Fischetti M. and Pisinger D. (2017). On the Impact of using Mixed Integer Programming Techniques on Real-world Offshore Wind Parks . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-218-9, pages 108-118. DOI: 10.5220/0006190701080118


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@conference{icores17,
author={Martina Fischetti and David Pisinger},
title={On the Impact of using Mixed Integer Programming Techniques on Real-world Offshore Wind Parks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2017},
pages={108-118},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006190701080118},
isbn={978-989-758-218-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - On the Impact of using Mixed Integer Programming Techniques on Real-world Offshore Wind Parks
SN - 978-989-758-218-9
AU - Fischetti M.
AU - Pisinger D.
PY - 2017
SP - 108
EP - 118
DO - 10.5220/0006190701080118