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PO282: Energy assessment of wind farm repowering: use of wind farm postconstruction vs preconstruction met masts
Nurseda Yildirium Yurusen, Project Engineer- Asset & Sustainability Performance, UL Solutions
Abstract
Repowering is one of the current solutions proposed to optimize the use of wind-rich sites currently occupied by aging and underperforming wind farms. In 2022, a total of 454 MW of wind power capacity was decommissioned in Europe, a figure exceeding the initially expected decommissioning by threefold, as reported by WindEurope. Postponing such a significant phase of wind farm lifetime, unfortunately is a temporary solution, which comes with a burden of underperformance and limited use of the real wind resource potential. According to WindEurope's report "Wind energy in Europe - 2022 Statistics and the outlook for 2023-2027", the Iberian Peninsula is identified as a region occupied by aging and underperforming wind farms. Spain and Portugal have the oldest wind fleets considering average age of onshore wind turbines. WindEurope's analysis includes other countries in the study such as Germany, France, UK, Sweden, Turkey, Italy, Poland, and Netherlands. The market players in the Iberian Peninsula need repowering site evaluation analysis. While literature, standards, and industry recommendations offer detailed energy yield assessment procedures, these typically require measurements from a preconstruction met mast. Guidelines for energy yield assessment using operational data and verification turbines are relatively limited. For instance, TR6 is tailored for German projects and outlines the use of verification turbines, which can benefit from public databases for energy resource scaling indexes. To the best of our knowledge, such tools and guidelines are not available for the Mediterranean countries. Therefore, the need for in-house solutions, proper management of data collection campaigns and maximum utilization of historical data is becoming more evident. This paper will present guidance for wind farm owners with aging fleets who require estimates of energy production for the purpose of repowering.
