<p>In the context of floating offshore wind planning the turbine micro-siting issue refers to the optimal placement and arrangement of individual turbines in a floating wind farm layout. Different approaches have been proposed for tackling this problem in the literature including several types of generic and meta-heuristic algorithms, applications of realistic models, optimization techniques, etc. In this article Multi Criteria Decision Methods (MCDM) as a complement to current practices for identifying an initial compromise solution to the problem of wind turbine micro-siting is proposed. MCDM deals with multiple objectives in decision-making. The main goal of these methods is to choose among several alternatives using decision criteria previously defined. &nbsp;The use of MCDM guarantees the identification of the alternative that better performs than all the others according to the selected criteria. &nbsp;After a literature review on available methods for micro-siting of offshore wind turbines in a specific location, and an introduction to the MCDM, the usefulness and potential of MCDM in siting floating wind turbines is highlighted. The MCDM methods could add new parameters to the floating wind farms' layout process. The results of this study support the potential role of these methods as key tools to technology developers and decision-makers.</p>

Micro-Siting of Floating Turbines Through Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making

Paper Proceedings: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/OMAE/OMAE2021/volume/85116

OMAE 2021

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