Cuong D. Dao
Wind Turbine Reliability Data Review and Impacts on Levelised Cost of Energy
Dao, Cuong D.; Kazemtabrizi, Behzad; Crabtree, Christopher J.
Authors
Dr Behzad Kazemtabrizi behzad.kazemtabrizi@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Professor Christopher Crabtree c.j.crabtree@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Abstract
Reliability is critical to the design, operation, maintenance, and performance assessment and improvement of wind turbines (WTs). This paper systematically reviews publicly available reliability data for both onshore and offshore WTs and investigates the impacts of reliability on the cost of energy. WT failure rates and downtimes, broken down by subassembly, are collated from 18 publicly available databases including over 18 000 WTs, corresponding to over 90 000 turbine‐years. The data are classified based on the types of data collected (failure rate and stop rate) and by onshore and offshore populations. A comprehensive analysis is performed to investigate WT subassembly reliability data variations, identify critical subassemblies, compare onshore and offshore WT reliability, and understand possible sources of uncertainty. Large variations in both failure rates and downtimes are observed, and the skew in failure rate distribution implies that large databases with low failure rates, despite their diverse populations, are less uncertain than more targeted surveys, which are easily skewed by WT type failures. A model is presented to evaluate the levelised cost of energy as a function of WT failure rates and downtimes. A numerical study proves a strong and nonlinear relationship between WT reliability and operation and maintenance expenditure as well as annual energy production. Together with the cost analysis model, the findings can help WT operators identify the optimal degree of reliability improvement to minimise the levelised cost of energy.
Citation
Dao, C. D., Kazemtabrizi, B., & Crabtree, C. J. (2019). Wind Turbine Reliability Data Review and Impacts on Levelised Cost of Energy. Wind Energy, 22(12), 1848-1871. https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2404
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 22, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 10, 2019 |
Publication Date | Dec 31, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jul 22, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 11, 2019 |
Journal | Wind Energy |
Print ISSN | 1095-4244 |
Electronic ISSN | 1099-1824 |
Publisher | Wiley Open Access |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 22 |
Issue | 12 |
Pages | 1848-1871 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2404 |
Keywords | Reliability, wind turbine, failure rate, downtime, uncertainty, levelised cost of energy. |
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