Wind Turbines for the Power Supply for Offshore Fish Farms : A Case Study for the Norwegian West Coast

2017

Master's thesis Renewable Energy ENE500 - University of Agder 2017 In this thesis the power consumption of a fish farm is set in relation to the expected power production from a wind turbine in order to assess the feasibility of this combination. The fish farm, called Rataren, is located in Sør-Trøndelag and hourly data on power consumption is available in the period 1st February 2016 until 31st August 2016, as a result of change in energy source from diesel generators to the onshore power grid. This is one of Norway’s largest fish farms and has 14 cages during the studied period. There are some minor data losses that are removed from the data sets. Wind speed, air and water temperatures at…