Abstract
As wind energy plays a growing role in the energy sector, new methods for controlling wind turbines and wind farms to maximize performance are garnering industry interest. A developing body of research treats the entire wind farm as a control system, with individual turbines acting as agents in a network, allowing farm-level objectives to be considered. Two promising developments in this research are wake steering control, which seeks to increase the power generated at a wind farm by directing the wakes of upstream turbines away from downstream ones, and communication-based spatial filtering, which seeks to improve the quality of information used by turbine- and farm-level controllers by combining measurements of the wind field collected at the individual turbines. The latter method has been shown to improve the estimates of wind direction at the turbines; however, the resulting potential for increased power capture warrants further investigation. With this paper, we begin to address this gap by combining wake steering with wind direction spatial filtering. To do so, we present a preliminary method for assessing the power capture of dynamic controllers using wind farm codes designed for time-averaged simulation. This allows us to generate results much more rapidly than would be possible using high-fidelity wind farm simulators and may be useful in many wind farm control design applications.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | Article No. 023310 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Mar 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 Author(s).
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/JA-5000-79389
Keywords
- estimation
- wake steering
- wind farm control