Preliminary Design of an Offshore Wind Farm on the Egyptian Coast

In this paper, a preliminary design is applied to specify the minimum spacing between turbines to be located offshore. These spacing are affecting the wakes' interactions, which have effects on power generation and the farm occupying surface area. A numerical analysis is carried out on an offshore wind farm in the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast, to specify the optimal separation distance between the turbines. Results revealed that, the separation distance of 7 rotor diameters that is parallel to the wind direction was optimum. The separation distance of 3 rotor diameters was the optimum spacing between turbines perpendicular to the wind direction.