Towards Active Power Control of Waked Wind Farms: A study in SOWFA simulation environment

The power generated from wind is not synchronized to the electrical frequency of the power grid. Grid balancing services must be assured when the output from a wind farm is integrated into the electrical grid to avoid the risk of blackouts.<b> Active Power Control (APC)</b> methods are employed to provide grid balancing ancillary services such...

Offshore wind farm decommissioning: An orientation of possible economic activity in the south holland region and the rotterdam port area

A significant part of wind energy in the Netherlands is generated by offshore wind farms at sea. In the coming decades, the number of wind farms will be scaled up in line with current energy transition and sustainability objectives. What happens to these wind turbines when they reach the end of their operational life? What volumes of material...

Mooring System Design for Wind Farm In Very Deep Water: European Wind Energy Master Thesis

Offshore floating wind turbines are one of the newest technologies in the renewable markets today. The world’s first floating wind farm, the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, was commissioned in October 2017 and has been competitive with fixed bottom offshore wind turbines. There is a global push to make more renewable energy available, but less...

Investigating the performance of wind farms with alternating tower heights

Johnstone and Coleman (2012) were among the first to opt the idea of wind farms with mixed tower heights and predicted an increased power production due to the decrease of losses to TKE production from the mean kinetic energy balance. In the current study, the performance of infinite wind farms with alternating tower heights imposed by a...

Data-driven wind plant control

Each wind turbine in a cluster of wind turbines (a wind power plant) can influence the performance of other turbines through the wake that forms downstream of its rotor. The wake has a reduced wind velocity, since the turbine extracts energy from the flow, and the obstruction by the wind turbine rotor causes increased turbulence. If another...

A dynamic aggregate model for the simulation of short term power fluctuations

An important aspect related to wind energy integration into the electrical power system is the fluctuation of the generated power due to the stochastic variations of the wind speed across the area where wind turbines are installed. Simulation models are useful tools to evaluate the impact of the wind power on the power system stability and on...