Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance

<p>Wake steering is a wind farm control strategy in which upstream wind turbines are misaligned with the wind to redirect their wakes away from downstream turbines, thereby increasing the net wind plant power production and reducing fatigue loads generated by wake turbulence. In this paper, we...

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Autores principales:	E. Simley, P. Fleming, N. Girard, L. Alloin, E. Godefroy, T. Duc
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Publicado:	Copernicus Publications 2021
Materias:	Renewable energy sources TJ807-830
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8b4e3ac5dec843078a756b5cf6b4e4b82021-11-12T09:45:21ZResults from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance10.5194/wes-6-1427-20212366-74432366-7451https://doaj.org/article/8b4e3ac5dec843078a756b5cf6b4e4b82021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://wes.copernicus.org/articles/6/1427/2021/wes-6-1427-2021.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2366-7443https://doaj.org/toc/2366-7451<p>Wake steering is a wind farm control strategy in which upstream wind turbines are misaligned with the wind to redirect their wakes away from downstream turbines, thereby increasing the net wind plant power production and reducing fatigue loads generated by wake turbulence. In this paper, we present results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant involving two wind turbines spaced 3.7 rotor diameters apart. During the 3-month experiment period, we estimate that wake steering reduced wake losses by 5.6 % for the wind direction sector investigated. After applying a long-term correction based on the site wind rose, the reduction in wake losses increases to 9.3 %. As a function of wind speed, we find large energy improvements near cut-in wind speed, where wake steering can prevent the downstream wind turbine from shutting down. Yet for wind speeds between 6–8 m/s, we observe little change in performance with wake steering. However, wake steering was found to improve energy production significantly for below-rated wind speeds from 8–12 m/s. By measuring the relationship between yaw misalignment and power production using a nacelle lidar, we attribute much of the improvement in wake-steering performance at higher wind speeds to a significant reduction in the power loss of the upstream turbine as wind speed increases. Additionally, we find higher wind direction variability at lower wind speeds, which contributes to poor performance in the 6–8 m/s wind speed bin because of slow yaw controller dynamics. Further, we compare the measured performance of wake steering to predictions using the FLORIS (FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady State) wind farm control tool coupled with a wind direction variability model. Although the achieved yaw offsets at the upstream wind turbine fall short of the intended yaw offsets, we find that they are predicted well by the wind direction variability model. When incorporating the expected yaw offsets, estimates of the energy improvement from wake steering using FLORIS closely match the experimental results.</p>E. SimleyP. FlemingN. GirardL. AlloinE. GodefroyT. DucCopernicus PublicationsarticleRenewable energy sourcesTJ807-830ENWind Energy Science, Vol 6, Pp 1427-1453 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 E. Simley P. Fleming N. Girard L. Alloin E. Godefroy T. Duc Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance
description	<p>Wake steering is a wind farm control strategy in which upstream wind turbines are misaligned with the wind to redirect their wakes away from downstream turbines, thereby increasing the net wind plant power production and reducing fatigue loads generated by wake turbulence. In this paper, we present results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant involving two wind turbines spaced 3.7 rotor diameters apart. During the 3-month experiment period, we estimate that wake steering reduced wake losses by 5.6 % for the wind direction sector investigated. After applying a long-term correction based on the site wind rose, the reduction in wake losses increases to 9.3 %. As a function of wind speed, we find large energy improvements near cut-in wind speed, where wake steering can prevent the downstream wind turbine from shutting down. Yet for wind speeds between 6–8 m/s, we observe little change in performance with wake steering. However, wake steering was found to improve energy production significantly for below-rated wind speeds from 8–12 m/s. By measuring the relationship between yaw misalignment and power production using a nacelle lidar, we attribute much of the improvement in wake-steering performance at higher wind speeds to a significant reduction in the power loss of the upstream turbine as wind speed increases. Additionally, we find higher wind direction variability at lower wind speeds, which contributes to poor performance in the 6–8 m/s wind speed bin because of slow yaw controller dynamics. Further, we compare the measured performance of wake steering to predictions using the FLORIS (FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady State) wind farm control tool coupled with a wind direction variability model. Although the achieved yaw offsets at the upstream wind turbine fall short of the intended yaw offsets, we find that they are predicted well by the wind direction variability model. When incorporating the expected yaw offsets, estimates of the energy improvement from wake steering using FLORIS closely match the experimental results.</p>
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author	E. Simley P. Fleming N. Girard L. Alloin E. Godefroy T. Duc
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title	Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance
title_short	Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance
title_full	Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance
title_fullStr	Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance
title_full_unstemmed	Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance
title_sort	results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance
publisher	Copernicus Publications
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/8b4e3ac5dec843078a756b5cf6b4e4b8
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Results from a wake-steering experiment at a commercial wind plant: investigating the wind speed dependence of wake-steering performance

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