Offshore LCOE

General Settings

When applying LCOE optimisation to offshore projects, the first thing to do is to disable the access roads here

Figure 1: Cost Of Energy Settings - disabling access roads

The next thing you might want to do is to use Sharma for determining collector system circuits

Figure 2: Cost Of Energy Settings - setting Sharma to avoid cable crossing

Sharma selects circuits based on a star topology and is less optimal than Esau-Williams (the default algorithm in Openwind) but is less likely to lead to cable crossing which can be very expensive when building offshore wind projects.

Turbine Foundations

You can specify multiple different turbine foundations for any given turbine type by going to the