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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy Année : 2018

Influence of the Wake Effect on Electrical Dynamics of Commercial Tidal Farms: Application to the Alderney Race (France)

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Marine renewable energies (MRE) allow the diversification of the energy mix and are thus developing rapidly. The extraction of tidal energy is one of the most promising MRE and is nowadays in a preindustrial phase. The Alderney Race (Raz Blanchard in French), situated between the island of Alderney (Channel Islands) and the Cap de la Hague in France, capitalizes a resource estimated between 5 and 14 TWh/year. This great tidal resource attracts tidal energy developers. Harnessing the high potential of the Alderney Race requires deploying numerous turbines in arrays. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of the wake effects on the electrical dynamics of commercial tidal farms. The proposed methodology is applied to a hypothetical tidal farm in the Alderney Race. The influence of the wake effects on the power produced by a tidal farm is assessed by comparing simulations where the effect is neglected to simulations with wake effects. Two operational conditions are analyzed: Normal operation (one-day simulation with varying tidal speed); grid disturbances (voltage dip at the tidal farm point of common coupling). Simulations show that neglecting the wake effect implies significant errors in active power estimation at the point of common coupling during normal operation. Moreover, differences in the behavior of the system during voltage dip occur if the wake effect is not taken into account.
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hal-02147592 , version 1 (04-06-2019)

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Ottavio Brutto, Mahmoud Barakat, Sylvain Guillou, Jérôme Thiebot, Hamid Gualous. Influence of the Wake Effect on Electrical Dynamics of Commercial Tidal Farms: Application to the Alderney Race (France). IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy , 2018, 9 (1), pp.321-332. ⟨10.1109/TSTE.2017.2731839⟩. ⟨hal-02147592⟩
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