Scenario analysis for techno-economic model development of U.S. offshore wind support structures
Abstract
Abstract Challenging bathymetry and soil conditions of future US offshore wind power plants might promote the use of multimember, fixed‐bottom structures (or ‘jackets’) in place of monopiles. Support structures affect costs associated with the balance of system and operation and maintenance. Understanding the link between these costs and the main environmental design drivers is crucial in the quest for a lower levelized cost of energy, and it is the main rationale for this work. Actual cost and engineering data are still scarce; hence, we evaluated a simplified engineering approach to tie key site and turbine parameters (e.g. water depth, wave height, tower‐head mass, hub height and generator rating) to the overall support weight. A jacket‐and‐tower sizing tool, part of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's system engineering software suite, was utilized to achieve mass‐optimized support structures for 81 different configurations. This tool set provides preliminary sizing of all jacket components. Results showed reasonable agreement with the available industry data, and that the jacket mass is mainly driven by water depth, but hub height and tower‐head mass become more influential at greater turbine ratings. A larger sensitivity of the structural mass to wave height and target eigenfrequency was observed for the deepestmore »
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1348156
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1400795
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5000-66252
Journal ID: ISSN 1095-4244
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308; 36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Wind Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 20; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1095-4244
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY; offshore wind; jacket substructure; mass sensitivity to environmental variables; balance of system; cost analysis
Citation Formats
Damiani, Rick, Ning, Andrew, Maples, Ben, Smith, Aaron, and Dykes, Katherine. Scenario analysis for techno-economic model development of U.S. offshore wind support structures. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1002/we.2021.
Damiani, Rick, Ning, Andrew, Maples, Ben, Smith, Aaron, & Dykes, Katherine. Scenario analysis for techno-economic model development of U.S. offshore wind support structures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2021
Damiani, Rick, Ning, Andrew, Maples, Ben, Smith, Aaron, and Dykes, Katherine. Thu .
"Scenario analysis for techno-economic model development of U.S. offshore wind support structures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2021. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1348156.
@article{osti_1348156,
title = {Scenario analysis for techno-economic model development of U.S. offshore wind support structures},
author = {Damiani, Rick and Ning, Andrew and Maples, Ben and Smith, Aaron and Dykes, Katherine},
abstractNote = {Abstract Challenging bathymetry and soil conditions of future US offshore wind power plants might promote the use of multimember, fixed‐bottom structures (or ‘jackets’) in place of monopiles. Support structures affect costs associated with the balance of system and operation and maintenance. Understanding the link between these costs and the main environmental design drivers is crucial in the quest for a lower levelized cost of energy, and it is the main rationale for this work. Actual cost and engineering data are still scarce; hence, we evaluated a simplified engineering approach to tie key site and turbine parameters (e.g. water depth, wave height, tower‐head mass, hub height and generator rating) to the overall support weight. A jacket‐and‐tower sizing tool, part of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's system engineering software suite, was utilized to achieve mass‐optimized support structures for 81 different configurations. This tool set provides preliminary sizing of all jacket components. Results showed reasonable agreement with the available industry data, and that the jacket mass is mainly driven by water depth, but hub height and tower‐head mass become more influential at greater turbine ratings. A larger sensitivity of the structural mass to wave height and target eigenfrequency was observed for the deepest water conditions (>40 m). Thus, techno‐economic analyses using this model should be based on accurate estimates of actual metocean conditions and turbine parameters especially for deep waters. The relationships derived from this study will inform National Renewable Energy Laboratory's offshore balance of system cost model, and they will be used to evaluate the impact of changes in technology on offshore wind lower levelized cost of energy. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.},
doi = {10.1002/we.2021},
journal = {Wind Energy},
number = 4,
volume = 20,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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