Offshore Wind Farming

In this example, you’ll learn how to solve an offshore wind power generation problem. The goal of the problem is to figure out which underwater cables should be laid to connect an offshore wind farm power network at a minimum cost. We’ll show you how to formulate a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model of this problem using the Gurobi Python API and then find an optimal solution to the problem using the Gurobi Optimizer.

This modeling example is at the beginner level, where we assume that you know Python and that you have some knowledge about building mathematical optimization models.