Computing Near-Optimal Array Cable Layouts for Offshore Wind Farms, including Cable Choice
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To harvest the generated power, the turbines of an offshore wind farm are connected to an electrical transformer by cable routes. Typical cable layouts use two cable types distinguished by price and capacity: High capacity is expensive. This work presents a heuristic for computing near-optimal layouts based on the Clarke and Wright savings heuristic for vehicle routing, and the layouts it computes for two real-life offshore wind farms. The computed layouts are 6% more expensive than the optimal layouts, and on average 5% cheaper than the actually installed layouts.
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