Site Selection of Appropriated Berth for Offshore Wind Power Development

• Main Authors: Sian-Yi Huang, 黃憲一
• Other Authors: Tzay-An Shiau
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12465973391063560109

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 河海工程學系 === 101 === According to the global trend for the development of technology and industry of wind power, the wind technology of landing mode has been transformed into offshore mode. Differing from landing mode, offshore wind power requires ports for logistics activities including loading, transport, storage and installation. Such a multi-function port plays an important role of the development of an offshore wind farm with commercial scales. With the encouragement of planning offshore wind power in Taiwan, several offshore wind farms will be developed in the future, and the demand of appropriated berth in support of logistics will increase as well. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential berths with their facilities among commercial ports, industrial ports and sub ports in Taiwan. The candidate berths were set to priority rank based on three different cases of offshore wind farm and the variations of distance to wind farms. In this study, a multi-criteria decision making method was established in a two-phase mode. At the first phase, this study combined the preferences of investors to the berths with non-compensatory criteria for selection of candidate berths. In addition, those candidate options in the first phase were assessed through the perspectives of TIPC (Taiwan International Ports Corporation). Due to site selection of berths for offshore wind power was considered as a public affair, the stakeholders including wind farm developer and port authorities were taken into account for integration in the evaluation process. This study used the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Dempster-Shafer theory (DST) to deal with the decision making process, and consequently the preferable sites with priority rank will be discussed through the utility of candidate options. The results showed that the overall priorities for some candidate berths didn’t vary from the distance between offshore wind farms and berths. However, the candidate options have high priorities in the case of the long distance between offshore wind farms and berths, such as distance from berths of #S01, #S05 and #S06 of Port of Taipei to Changhua-Stage 1 offshore wind farm and Fuhai offshore wind farm. In contrast with above, the short distance for candidate options have low priorities such as distance from berths of #4C and #5B of Port of Taichung to Changhua-Stage 1 offshore wind farm and Fuhai offshore wind farm. As a result, this study indicated that the short distance between offshore wind farm and the berths might not have a better performance than the long one. The outcome of this study can provide a basis of reference for planners in the future.