Print Email Facebook Twitter Analysis of the reduced wake effect for available wind power calculation during curtailment Title Analysis of the reduced wake effect for available wind power calculation during curtailment Author Bontekoning, M. P.C. (Student TU Delft) Sanchez Perez Moreno, S. (TU Delft Wind Energy) Ummels, B. C. (Ventolines BV) Zaaijer, M B (TU Delft Wind Energy) Date 2017-06-13 Abstract With the increase of installed wind power capacity, the contribution of wind power curtailment to power balancing becomes more relevant. Determining the available power during curtailment at the wind farm level is not trivial, as curtailment changes the wake effects in a wind farm. Current best practice to estimate the available power is to sum the available power calculated by every wind turbine. However, during curtailment the changed local wind conditions at the wind turbines lead to inaccurate results at the wind farm level. This paper presents an algorithm to determine the available power of a wind farm during curtailment. Moreover, results of curtailment experiments are discussed that were performed on nearshore wind farm Westermeerwind to validate the algorithm. For the case where a single turbine is being curtailed, it is shown that the algorithm reduces the estimation error for the first downstream turbine significantly. Further development of the algorithm is required for accurate estimation of the second turbine. All further downstream turbines did not experience a change in wake conditions. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:92ab4cdb-7160-44b3-a59e-dac3551be1b5 DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/854/1/012004 ISSN 1742-6588 Source Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 854 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 M. P.C. Bontekoning, S. Sanchez Perez Moreno, B. C. Ummels, M B Zaaijer Files PDF pdf.pdf 405.77 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:92ab4cdb-7160-44b3-a59e-dac3551be1b5/datastream/OBJ/view