63450 20200911132933.0 doi 10.1088/1742-6596/926/1/012014 sideral 102529 ART-2017-102529 eng Yürüsen, N.Y. The Financial Benefits of Various Catastrophic Failure Prevention Strategies in a Wind Farm: Two market studies (UK-Spain) 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Operation of wind farms is driven by the overall aim of minimising costs while maximising energy sales. However, in certain circumstances investments are required to guarantee safe operation and survival of an asset. In this paper, we discuss the merits of various catastrophic failure prevention strategies in a Spanish wind farm. The wind farm operator was required to replace blades in two phases: temporary and final repair. We analyse the power performance of the turbine in the different states and investigate four scenarios with different timing of temporary and final repair during one year. The financial consequences of the scenarios are compared with a baseline by using a discounted cash flow analysis that considers the wholesale electricity market selling prices and interest rates. A comparison with the UK electricity market is conducted to highlight differences in the rate of return in the two countries. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 642108-AWESOME info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/642108/EU/Advanced Wind Energy Systems Operation and Maintenance Expertise/AWESOME info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.241 2017 Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) 2017 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Tautz-Weinert, J. Watson, S.J. (orcid)0000-0003-2360-0845 Melero, J.J. Universidad de Zaragoza 5009 535 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Eléctrica Área Ingeniería Eléctrica 926, 012014 (2017), [1 pp] J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1742-6588 748246 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63450/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 13716 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63450/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:63450 articulos driver 2020-09-11-13:22:08 ARTICLE