Offshore Wind Power Plants (OWPPS)

This chapter first provides a general overview of different offshore wind power plant (OWPP) designs considering the use of both high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission links to deliver the generated power. It then focuses on the conventional AC wind power plants, by introducing some possible wind power plant topologies and briefly describing the required technologies that encompasses the collection grid. The chapter also deals with the description of the electrical design methodology performed in the conventional offshore wind power plants. The methodology focuses on explaining in detail the cable selection process and how the technical assessment of an OWPP is performed, considering only the collection grid area. Finally, the chapter presents a short presentation of future OWPPs based on DC technologies, as well as other proposals for AC wind power plants connected to the onshore grid through an HVDC transmission links.

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