FERHAT BİNGÖL

Large Scale Wind Turbine Installation for Offshore Gas Platforms; Is It Feasible?

Abstract

In early days of wind energy, due to the cost and difficulties of developing offshore wind farms, several ideas were tested by scientist/engineers in aim to utilize known offshore wind resources. One of them was to use numerous USA oil/gas platforms which are no longer in use as an offshore platform to erect single wind turbine; because of the limited space. It was studied and concluded that one turbine was not feasible and could not compete with the market when LCOE is much higher. After nearly two decades, now the new wind turbine technologies for offshore have reached 12MW. In this study, the use of oil/gas platform idea is revisited for wind turbine installation with a combined production and cost. The results show highly possible feasibility for wind turbine installation with medium wind class wind resources. The study puts together an initial feasibility methodology based on state-of-the-art energy yield software and latest cost models combined for such purpose.

Biography

Assist. Prof. Ferhat Bingöl – Dr. Bingöl has a MSc and PhD in Wind Energy degree from Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby/Roskilde Denmark, in 2005 and 2009 respectively. He has worked in the same university as an academic until he moved to Izmir Institute of Technology in 2014. His wide range of studies revolve around, wind databases, wind atlas generation, offshore wind atlases, lidar measurements, complex terrain studies, GIS and satellite wind measurements.