EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Micro-siting optimization of a wind farm built in multiple phases

Mengxuan Song, Yi Wen, Bin Duan, Jun Wang and Qi Gong

Energy, 2017, vol. 137, issue C, 95-103

Abstract: A modern wind farm on a large scale can be partitioned into several areas and built up in multiple phases because of the limited initial budget, geographic availability, local policy and other factors. Wind farm micro-siting ignoring the wake effects caused by wind turbines built in a later phase is bound to lose the potential profit of the whole project. This paper proposes a micro-siting strategy that optimizes the layout of different farm areas synchronously for the largest profit of the whole wind farm. To properly assess the profit of the multi-phase wind farm project, the concept of net present value is accordingly augmented and used in the optimization process. Simulation results demonstrate that, although the produced energy of the wind farm designed by the proposed strategy decreases in the first few years, a substantial increment is added to the total profit of the whole project.

Keywords: Wind farm micro-siting; Multi-phase project management; Genetic algorithms; Optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544217311258
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:137:y:2017:i:c:p:95-103

DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.06.127

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-19
Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:137:y:2017:i:c:p:95-103