As global wind capacity continues to grow, the need for accurate operational analyses of a rapidly growing fleet of wind power plants has increased in proportion. To address this need, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released OpenOA, an open-source codebase for operational analysis of wind farms. It is envisioned that OpenOA will evolve into a widely used codebase supported by a large group of global wind energy experts. This paper provides a summary of OpenOA.
As global wind capacity continues to grow, the need for accurate operational analyses of a...
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OpenOA: An Open-Source Code Base for Operational Analysis of Wind Power Plants
Mike Optis,Jordan Perr-Sauer,Caleb Philips,Anna E. Craig,Joseph C. Y. Lee,Travis Kemper,Shuangwen Sheng,Eric Simley,Lindy Williams,Monte Lunacek,John Meissner,and M. Jason FieldsMike Optis et al.Mike Optis,Jordan Perr-Sauer,Caleb Philips,Anna E. Craig,Joseph C. Y. Lee,Travis Kemper,Shuangwen Sheng,Eric Simley,Lindy Williams,Monte Lunacek,John Meissner,and M. Jason Fields
Received: 08 Mar 2019 – Accepted for review: 25 Mar 2019 – Discussion started: 02 Apr 2019
Abstract. As global wind capacity continues to grow, the need for accurate operational analyses of a rapidly growing fleet of wind power plants has increased in proportion. The wind energy industry at present, however, is not ideally positioned to address this need. First, there is a lack of best practices and limited published standards for performing operational analyses. Second, operational data and methods are typically proprietary and not shared among the wind energy community. Consequently, there is considerable duplication of effort in developing methods as well as uncertainty in the calculated metrics. To address these problems, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has publicly released OpenOA, an open-source code base for performing operational analyses on wind plant data. The intent of OpenOA is to provide a framework in which best practices can be developed, refined, and disseminated. Ultimately, such collaboration is expected to lead to a working example (i.e. reference implementation) of methods from which a published standard may develop. This article provides an overview of OpenOA, highlighting its release as a public repository, modular software architecture, current functionality, and planned functionality in subsequent releases. It is our goal for OpenOA to evolve into an indispensable tool for performing operational analyses that is used and supported by a large community of wind energy experts.
As global wind capacity continues to grow, the need for accurate operational analyses of a rapidly growing fleet of wind power plants has increased in proportion. To address this need, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released OpenOA, an open-source codebase for operational analysis of wind farms. It is envisioned that OpenOA will evolve into a widely used codebase supported by a large group of global wind energy experts. This paper provides a summary of OpenOA.
As global wind capacity continues to grow, the need for accurate operational analyses of a...