Review of wes-2021-47

The manuscript under review discusses wind farm layout optimization, considering both energy production and the cost of the electrical network. The former is based on evaluating wind turbine farm layouts with a fast Gaussian wake model. The latter is based on a simple graph-theoretic approach where straight lines between turbines are assumed and a small number of different cable cross sections are available, with different capacities and costs. In particular, neither the topography (e.g. necessary burial depth) nor its dynamics (e.g. traveling sand waves) are considered.