Currently, the Korean government is driving the construction of large-scale floating offshore wind farms to increase domestic renewable energy generation and decrease carbon emissions. In offshore wind farms, maintenance approaches can be limited more often than onshore wind farms by marine weather conditions (wave height, etc.). Therefore, maintenance planning optimization is more important to minimize maintenance costs and power generation loss by downtime. Additionally, the power generation of a wind farm is affected by wind speed as well as wind direction because of the wake effect, so it is possible that power generation loss by downtime is also dependent on combinations of weather conditions (wind speed and direction) and the location of wind turbines for maintenance. In this study, the effects of the wind conditions and the locations of tripped wind turbines on power generation loss were explored for a hypothetical floating offshore wind farm. In order to calculate the power generation of a wind farm, a wake effect calculator was developed based on Jensen's formula. Then, a simple methodology of determining maintenance priorities that minimize power generation loss was proposed.

In this paper, a power control algorithm for a 30 kW horizontal-axis lift-type stall control wind turbine was developed. The control algorithm consists of three different control strategies for three different control regions. At a wind speed that is much lower than the rated wind speed, it uses a generator speed, generator torque lookup table to track the maximum power coefficient of the rotor. At a wind speed that is higher than the rated wind speed, multiple closed control loops are used to track the rated power. Also, a closed-loop control between the two control regions is used to maintain the rated speed of the rotor. The proposed control algorithm was validated by dynamic simulations using Bladed. Based on the simulation results, it was found that the proposed algorithm works properly in three control regions of the wind turbine. The proposed control algorithm is expected to increase the capacity factor of stall-regulated small wind turbines.

With the technological advances of offshore wind turbines, the share of power generated by offshore wind farms in power systems is increasing significantly. An export cable transmission system is necessary to connect offshore wind farms to power systems. The voltage rating and reactive power compensation methods of the export transmission system are very critical, as they can influence the power transmission capacity and CAPEX. With this in mind, this paper suggests an acceptable transmission voltage and reactive power compensation method for an export cable system connecting a 400[MW] offshore wind farm to a power system.