Comparison of offshore wind power systems

Abstract

The fast depleting reserves of conventional energy sources and climate change and Paris agreement are the main drivers for an urgent need of high efficiency renewable energy sources and efficient collection and transmission systems. Among the different types of renewable energies, wind and solar energies are the main types of renewable energies. However, collection and transmission is a major factor in the performance of these energies from the place where the farms are located to the consumption site, thus efficient techniques are required to collect and transmit that power in order to minimize losses and cost.

This master’s thesis aims to discover and analyze the development of different topologies of medium voltage AC and DC collection system for an offshore wind power plant including different topologies of converters for the DC collection system and different collection configurations.