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Techno-economic optimisation of offshore wind farms based on life cycle cost analysis on the UK

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dc.creator Mytilinou, Varvara
dc.creator Kolios, Athanasios J.
dc.date 2018-08-30T17:14:16Z
dc.date 2018-08-30T17:14:16Z
dc.date 2018-08-03
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:38:06Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:38:06Z
dc.identifier Varvara Mytilinou, Athanasios J. Kolios. Techno-economic optimisation of offshore wind farms based on life cycle cost analysis on the UK. Renewable Energy, Volume 132, March 2019, Pages 439-454
dc.identifier 0960-1481
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.07.146
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13438
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182295
dc.description In order to reduce the cost of energy per MWh in wind energy sector and support investment decisions, an optimisation methodology is developed and applied on Round 3 offshore zones, which are specific sites released by the Crown Estate for offshore wind farm deployments, and for each zone individually in the UK. The 8-objective optimisation problem includes five techno-economic Life Cycle Cost factors that are directly linked to the physical aspects of each location, where three different wind farm layouts and four types of turbines are considered. Optimal trade-offs are revealed by using NSGA II and sensitivity analysis is conducted for deeper insight for both industrial and policy-making purposes. Four optimum solutions were discovered in the range between £1.6 and £1.8 billion; the areas of Seagreen Alpha, East Anglia One and Hornsea Project One. The highly complex nature of the decision variables and their interdependencies were revealed, where the combinations of site-layout and site-turbine size captured above 20% of total Sobol indices in total cost. The proposed framework could also be applied to other sectors in order to increase investment confidence.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Life Cycle Cost
dc.subject NSGA II
dc.subject Multi-objective optimisation
dc.subject Round 3
dc.subject UK
dc.subject Sensitivity analysis
dc.title Techno-economic optimisation of offshore wind farms based on life cycle cost analysis on the UK
dc.type Article


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