Farmflow : extensively validated and dedicated model for wind farm control
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In a wind farm, turbines affect each other through their wakes, decreasing their power production and increasing the structural loading (wear and tear) of their components. It is still a common practice to operate wind turbines individually, each maximizing its own power production. Such strategy ignores the wake effects and is thus not optimal for maximizing power output at wind farm level. This triggered TNO researchers to develop a new, cooperative approach called active wake control (AWC). Patents for the potentially game-changing technology were granted already in 2003. AWC deals with mitigating the wake effects by coordinated control at farm level. AWC boosts the annual energy production (AEP), elongates turbine lifetime, and hence contributes to lowering the levelized cost of wind energy.
TNO Identifier
875913
Publisher
TNO
Place of publication
Petten