Eight Typical Schemes of Offshore Wind Power Transmission and Their Key Technical Problems

Zheng Xu (), Yanqiu Jin, Zheren Zhang and Ying Huang
Additional contact information
Zheng Xu: Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Yanqiu Jin: Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Zheren Zhang: Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Ying Huang: Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Focusing on the three technical features related to the offshore wind turbine and the offshore transmission channel, eight schemes of offshore wind power transmission and their corresponding key technologies are discussed. The first technical feature describes the grid-forming capability of the offshore wind turbine; two types of wind turbines are discussed, namely, the grid-following wind turbine and the grid-forming wind turbine. The second technical feature describes the frequency characteristics of the output voltage and current of the offshore wind turbine, including DC, low-frequency AC, power-frequency AC and medium-frequency AC. The third technical feature describes the power transmission modes adopted by the offshore high-voltage main transmission channel, which are HVDC, high-voltage low-frequency AC and high-voltage power-frequency AC. Finally, the technical characteristics and maturity of the eight offshore wind power transmission schemes are reviewed, and a technical development direction is recommended.

Keywords: grid-following wind turbine; grid-forming wind turbine; low-frequency wind turbine; medium-frequency wind turbine; HVDC transmission; low-frequency AC transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/2/658/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/2/658/ (text/html)

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:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:2:p:658-:d:1026373

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().