Redundancy analysis of offshore wind farm collection and transmission systems

1st International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply, SUPERGEN '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yang, Jin ^a   O'Reilly, John ^a   Fletcher, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collection grid; Large scale offshore wind farm; Redundancy; Reliability; Transmission system

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION GRID; DESIGN RESEARCH; ECONOMIC COSTS; LARGE-SCALE OFFSHORE WIND FARM; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY DEGREE; REDUNDANCY DESIGN; TRANSMISSION SYSTEM DESIGN; TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; WIND FARM;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSIONS; WIND POWER;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 77951449538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SUPERGEN.2009.5348163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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