Wake steering improves wind-turbine performance

[Winfield Hill]

"Power generation rose 13 percent under northwest winds
blowing into the wind farm at 7-8 meters per second —
average speeds for Pincher Creek." "For 5-6 mps winds
wake steering boosted generation by up to 47 percent."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/wind/teaching-wind-turbines-wake-steering

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/06/25/1903680116

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/01/223202/algorithms-help-turbines-share-the-wind


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Thanks,
- Win

 

[Clifford Heath]

On 2/7/19 11:56 am, Winfield Hill wrote:

"Power generation rose 13 percent under northwest winds
blowing into the wind farm at 7-8 meters per second —
average speeds for Pincher Creek." "For 5-6 mps winds
wake steering boosted generation by up to 47 percent."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/wind/teaching-wind-turbines-wake-steering

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/06/25/1903680116

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/01/223202/algorithms-help-turbines-share-the-wind

Interesting. Any competitive sailor would have suggested it, of course.
They all know the benefit of getting "clean wind".

Clifford Heath

 

On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 9:56:49 PM UTC-4, Winfield Hill wrote:

"Power generation rose 13 percent under northwest winds
blowing into the wind farm at 7-8 meters per second —
average speeds for Pincher Creek." "For 5-6 mps winds
wake steering boosted generation by up to 47 percent."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/wind/teaching-wind-turbines-wake-steering

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/06/25/1903680116

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/01/223202/algorithms-help-turbines-share-the-wind


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Thanks,
- Win

very informative. TYVM
Now we can just hope the bird lovers don't shut down all the wind turbines.

 

[Winfield Hill]

Clifford Heath wrote...

On 2/7/19 11:56 am, Winfield Hill wrote:
"Power generation rose 13 percent under northwest winds
blowing into the wind farm at 7-8 meters per second —
average speeds for Pincher Creek." "For 5-6 mps winds
wake steering boosted generation by up to 47 percent."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/wind/teaching-wind-turbines-wake-steering

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/06/25/1903680116

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/01/223202/algorithms-help-turbines-share-the-wind

Interesting. Any competitive sailor would have suggested it,
of course. They all know the benefit of getting "clean wind".

The cute thing was their way of testing it, rotate the
wind-direction sensor by the desired rotary displacement.


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Thanks,
- Win