Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-219-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-219-2024
Research article
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24 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2024

The value of wake steering wind farm flow control in US energy markets

Eric Simley, Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, and Paul Fleming

Data sets

FLORIS Time Series for Wind Energy Science Paper: The Value of Wake Steering Wind Farm Flow Control in US Energy Markets, v1.0 E. Simley et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10493111

Model code and software

Nrel/floris: V2.5 R. M. Mudafort et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6289535

FLORIS, Version 2.5.0 NREL https://github.com/NREL/floris

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Short summary
Wake steering is a wind farm control technology in which turbines are misaligned with the wind to deflect their wakes away from downstream turbines, increasing total power production. In this paper, we use a wind farm control model and historical electricity prices to assess the potential increase in market value from wake steering for 15 US wind plants. For most plants, we find that the relative increase in revenue from wake steering exceeds the relative increase in energy production.
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