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Title: IEA Wind Task 26: Offshore Wind Farm Baseline Documentation

Abstract

This document has been produced to provide the definition and rationale for the Baseline Offshore Wind Farm established within IEA Wind Task 26--Cost of Wind Energy. The Baseline has been developed to provide a common starting point for country comparisons and sensitivity analysis on key offshore wind cost and value drivers. The baseline project reflects an approximate average of the characteristics of projects installed between 2012 and 2014, with the project life assumed to be 20 years. The baseline wind farm is located 40 kilometres (km) from construction and operations and maintenance (O&M) ports and from export cable landfall. The wind farm consists of 100 4-megawatt (MW) wind turbines mounted on monopile foundations in an average water depth of 25 metres (m), connected by 33-kilovolt (kV) inter-array cables. The arrays are connected to a single offshore substation (33kV/220kV) mounted on a jacket foundation, with the substation connected via a single 220kV export cable to an onshore substation, 10km from landfall. The wind farm employs a port-based O&M strategy using crew-transfer vessels.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5]
  1. Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Blyth, Northumberland (United Kingdom)
  2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  3. SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim (Norway)
  4. Ecofys, Utrecht (Netherlands). TKI Wind Op Zee
  5. European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Brussels (Belgium)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (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:
1259255
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP-6A20-66262
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; cost of wind energy; offshore wind; International Energy Agency; IEA Task 26; NREL

Citation Formats

Smart, Gavin, Smith, Aaron, Warner, Ethan, Sperstad, Iver Bakken, Prinsen, Bob, and Lacal-Arantegui, Roberto. IEA Wind Task 26: Offshore Wind Farm Baseline Documentation. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1259255.
Smart, Gavin, Smith, Aaron, Warner, Ethan, Sperstad, Iver Bakken, Prinsen, Bob, & Lacal-Arantegui, Roberto. IEA Wind Task 26: Offshore Wind Farm Baseline Documentation. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1259255
Smart, Gavin, Smith, Aaron, Warner, Ethan, Sperstad, Iver Bakken, Prinsen, Bob, and Lacal-Arantegui, Roberto. 2016. "IEA Wind Task 26: Offshore Wind Farm Baseline Documentation". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1259255. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1259255.
@article{osti_1259255,
title = {IEA Wind Task 26: Offshore Wind Farm Baseline Documentation},
author = {Smart, Gavin and Smith, Aaron and Warner, Ethan and Sperstad, Iver Bakken and Prinsen, Bob and Lacal-Arantegui, Roberto},
abstractNote = {This document has been produced to provide the definition and rationale for the Baseline Offshore Wind Farm established within IEA Wind Task 26--Cost of Wind Energy. The Baseline has been developed to provide a common starting point for country comparisons and sensitivity analysis on key offshore wind cost and value drivers. The baseline project reflects an approximate average of the characteristics of projects installed between 2012 and 2014, with the project life assumed to be 20 years. The baseline wind farm is located 40 kilometres (km) from construction and operations and maintenance (O&M) ports and from export cable landfall. The wind farm consists of 100 4-megawatt (MW) wind turbines mounted on monopile foundations in an average water depth of 25 metres (m), connected by 33-kilovolt (kV) inter-array cables. The arrays are connected to a single offshore substation (33kV/220kV) mounted on a jacket foundation, with the substation connected via a single 220kV export cable to an onshore substation, 10km from landfall. The wind farm employs a port-based O&M strategy using crew-transfer vessels.},
doi = {10.2172/1259255},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1259255}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}