TY - JOUR
TI - Integration of Cost Modelling Within the Micro-Siting Design Optimisation of Tidal Turbine Arrays
AU - Culley, D
AU - Funke, S
AU - Kramer, S
AU - Piggott, M
T2 - Renewable Energy 
AB - The location of individual turbines within a tidal current turbine array – micro-siting – can have a significant impact on the power that the array may extract from the flow. Due to the infancy of the industry and the challenges of exploiting the resource, the economic costs of realising industrial scale tidal current energy projects are significant and should be considered as one of the key drivers of array design. This paper proposes a framework for the automated design of tidal current turbine arrays in which costs over the lifespan of the array may be modelled and considered as part of the design optimisation process. To demonstrate this approach, the cost of sub-sea cabling is incorporated by implementing a cable-routing algorithm alongside an existing gradient-based array optimisation algorithm. Three idealised test scenarios are used to demonstrate the effects of a financial-return optimising design approach as contrasted with a power maximisation approach.
DA - 2016/01//
PY - 2016
PB - Elsevier
VL - 85
SP - 215
EP - 227
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148115300379
DO - 10.1016/j.renene.2015.06.013
LA - English
KW - Current
KW - Tidal
KW - Modeling
KW - Site Characterization
ER -