Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-273-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-273-2019
Research article
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20 May 2019
Research article |  | 20 May 2019

Initial results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm – Part 1

Paul Fleming, Jennifer King, Katherine Dykes, Eric Simley, Jason Roadman, Andrew Scholbrock, Patrick Murphy, Julie K. Lundquist, Patrick Moriarty, Katherine Fleming, Jeroen van Dam, Christopher Bay, Rafael Mudafort, Hector Lopez, Jason Skopek, Michael Scott, Brady Ryan, Charles Guernsey, and Dan Brake

Model code and software

FLORIS J. King, R. Mudafort, P. Fleming, and C. Bay https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2672983

Short summary
Wake steering is a form of wind farm control in which turbines use yaw offsets to affect wakes in order to yield an increase in total energy production. In this first phase of a study of wake steering at a commercial wind farm, two turbines implement a schedule of offsets. For two closely spaced turbines, an approximate 14 % increase in energy was measured on the downstream turbine over a 10° sector, with a 4 % increase in energy production of the combined turbine pair.
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