Swedish power company Vattenfall has developed an optimisation tool to help reduce costs and save time in the planning and design of offshore wind projects. The tool, created in collaboration with the Danish Technical University , can consider all factors in turbine layout and cable routing during overnight simulations, a process that usually involves weeks of manually altering designs and gaining reapproval by other teams involved in a project. Vattenfall , lead engineer at Vattenfall , said the tool can achieve total gains of $11.46m ( €10m ) per wind farm by increasing production and reducing costs.
Swedish power company Vattenfall has developed an optimisation tool to help reduce costs and save time in the planning and design of offshore wind projects. The tool, created in collaboration with the Danish Technical University, can consider all factors in turbine layout and cable routing during overnight simulations, a process that usually involves weeks of manually altering designs and gaining reapproval by other teams involved in a project. Martina Fischetti, lead engineer at Vattenfall, said the tool can achieve total gains of €10m ($11.46m) per wind farm by increasing production and reducing costs.