Optimal Power Planning of Wind Turbines in a Wind Farm
Puneet Vishwakarma,
Yunjun Xu,
Kuo-Chi Lin
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, March 2017
Pages:
7-15
Received:
5 December 2016
Accepted:
21 March 2017
Published:
14 April 2017
Abstract: Wind energy is attractive in the presence of climate concerns and has the potential to dramatically reduce the dependency on nonrenewable energy resources. With the increase in wind farms there is a need to improve the efficiency in power allocation and power generation among wind turbines. In this paper, a hierarchical algorithm including a cooperative level and an individual level is developed for power coordination and planning in a wind farm. In the cooperative level, a constrained quadratic programming problem is formulated and solved to allocate the power to wind turbines considering the aerodynamic effects of wake interaction and the power generation capabilities of wind turbines. In the individual level, a method based on the local pursuit strategy is studied to connect the cooperative level power allocation and the individual level power generation using a virtual leader-follower scheme. The stability of individual wind turbine power generation is analyzed. Simulations are used to show the advantages of the method.
Abstract: Wind energy is attractive in the presence of climate concerns and has the potential to dramatically reduce the dependency on nonrenewable energy resources. With the increase in wind farms there is a need to improve the efficiency in power allocation and power generation among wind turbines. In this paper, a hierarchical algorithm including a cooper...
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