Vattenfall Optimizes Offshore Wind Farm Design
Martina Fischetti, Jesper Runge Kristoffersen, Thomas Hjort, Michele Monaci, David Pisinger
Abstract
Key aspects of the wind farm design process include determining the placement of turbines and optimizing the cables used to interconnect them. The authors discuss their development of mixed-integer programming models and matheuristic techniques to solve these problems for Vattenfall.
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