Wake losses from neighboring wind farms are becoming a central risk to offshore wind project economics, especially in dense areas like e.g., the German North Sea and some parts of the United Kingdom. External wake effects can lead to significant annual energy production losses on both new and existing awarded sites, impacting project business cases.
In Aegir Insights’ recent Insights piece, available to our subscribing clients, we used Aegir Quant's new external wake effect feature to assesses the impact of external wake on future sites in the German North Sea. These findings highlight, as prime offshore wind development areas are becoming more and more clustered, it is becoming increasingly important to account for external wake effects in business case preparations. Also, with the high degree of uncertainty in post-2030 buildout forecasts, it is important to consider many different scenarios.
Aegir Quant’s novel feature allows for rapid assessment of many project and timing scenarios in seconds, saving time and focusing efforts before employing more resource-intensive modelling solutions which can take days or weeks.
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