Expansion Planning Method of Offshore Multiplatform Power System With Wind Power Considering Cable Size Selection

With the expansion of the scale of subsea oil and gas resource exploitation, the offshore multiplatform interconnected power systems have become the main form of offshore platform group energy supply. The offshore multiplatform interconnected power system with wind power can effectively reduce the system fuel consumption and carbon emission, which has become an important direction for the development of future offshore multiplatform interconnected power systems. In this paper, the scenario method is adopted to portray the wind power output. System evaluation indicators considering the economy, reliability and environmental benefits of the system are proposed. Considering the nonnegligible impact of the cable size selection problem on the system economic cost, this paper introduces cable size selection variables in the expansion planning model of the offshore multiplatform interconnected power system with wind power to achieve accurate optimization of the system planning scheme but also greatly increases the difficulty of solving the model. A model linearization method is applied to linearize the nonlinear part of the model, so that the optimized model is a mixed-integer linear programming model under the determined system topology, and thus can be solved using commercial planning software. In addition, an improved genetic algorithm is proposed to optimize the system topology, which improves the efficiency of the model solution. The cases of different scale verify the validity of the model and the solution algorithm and show the impact of the maximum penetration rate of wind power on the total system cost.