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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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

in Bibtex Style

@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