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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-131
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-131
14 Nov 2024
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Offshore Wind Farm Layout Optimization Accounting for Participation to Secondary Reserve Markets

Thuy-Hai Nguyen, Julian Quick, Pierre-Elouan Réthoré, Jean-François Toubeau, Emmanuel De Jaeger, and François Vallée

Abstract. Wind farm layout optimization usually aims at maximizing annual energy production by placing wind turbines in a strategic way to avoid wake losses. However, this might not lead to optimal profits because of the volatility of electricity prices. Moreover, with the growing unpredictability and variability of future power systems due to the increase of renewable electricity production, wind farm operators will have a more important role in balancing the system through participation to reserve markets. This study presents a new formulation for wind farm layout optimization where the objective function aims at maximizing revenues from both day-ahead and reserve markets. It uses stochastic gradient descent for the optimization and probabilistic forecasts for wind power and electricity prices. The new formulation is applied on a test case based on a real-life offshore wind farm in Belgium. An important conclusion is that annual profit is expected to increase in a significant way when accounting for participation to reserve markets, while exhibiting a lower supplied energy production. Moreover, layouts optimized for profit maximization with reserve participation lead to better yearly profits than when considering day-ahead market only in the objective function. Profits are also higher for the new methodology than when using the maximization of annual energy production, widely used in the literature, as objective function.

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Thuy-Hai Nguyen, Julian Quick, Pierre-Elouan Réthoré, Jean-François Toubeau, Emmanuel De Jaeger, and François Vallée

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Thuy-Hai Nguyen, Julian Quick, Pierre-Elouan Réthoré, Jean-François Toubeau, Emmanuel De Jaeger, and François Vallée

Data sets

Historical data for wind, electricity prices and reserve activation (2021-2024) Thuy-Hai Nguyen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13946931

Model code and software

Python code used for layout optimization and post-process profits computation Thuy-Hai Nguyen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13946931

Thuy-Hai Nguyen, Julian Quick, Pierre-Elouan Réthoré, Jean-François Toubeau, Emmanuel De Jaeger, and François Vallée

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Current offshore wind farms have been designed to maximize their production of electricity at all times, and not to keep some reserve power in case of unexpected events on the grid. We present a new formulation for designing wind farms to maximize revenues from both energy and reserve markets. It is applied on a real-life wind farm. We show that profits are expected to increase in a significant way for wind farms designed and operated for reserve, with less energy supplied.
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