A Study on Reliability Assessment for Offshore Wind Farm Configurations

Abstract

Due to environment concern, fossil resource exhaustion issue and so forth, an attention on the use of renewable energy is being increased sustainably and various types of renewable energy are being developed. In particular, wind power plant is one of the most used resources among them. The recent trend indevelopment of wind power is the large-scale offshore wind farm. However, the burden of investment for offshore wind power is still considerable so that comprehensive evaluation must be performed in the planning stage. For the evaluation, this paper introduces the concept and method to assess offshore windfarm according to their configurations, in the reliability aspect.