HVDC connection of offshore wind farms to the transmission system

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-43

  Bresesti, Paola ^a   Kling, Wil L ^b,c   Hendriks, Ralph L ^b   Vailati, Riccardo ^a  

^a CESI RICERCA   (Italy)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TENNET TSO B V   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DC power transmission; Interconnected power systems; Power cables; Power transmission economics; Wind power generation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC CABLES; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; INVESTMENTS; MAINTENANCE; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; POWER CABLES; POWER TRANSMISSION ECONOMICS; WIND POWER GENERATION;

WIND POWER;

EID: 33947651217     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2006.889624     Document Type: Article

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