Wind farm turbine type and placement optimization

Journal Article · Mon Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/753/6/062004· OSTI ID:1329458

Graf, Peter ^[1]; Dykes, Katherine ^[1]; Scott, George ^[1]; Fields, Jason ^[1]; Lunacek, Monte ^[1]; Quick, Julian ^[1]; Rethore, Pierre -Elouan ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

The layout of turbines in a wind farm is already a challenging nonlinear, nonconvex, nonlinearly constrained continuous global optimization problem. Here we begin to address the next generation of wind farm optimization problems by adding the complexity that there is more than one turbine type to choose from. The optimization becomes a nonlinear constrained mixed integer problem, which is a very difficult class of problems to solve. Furthermore, this document briefly summarizes the algorithm and code we have developed, the code validation steps we have performed, and the initial results for multi-turbine type and placement optimization (TTP_OPT) we have run.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1329458
• Report Number(s): NREL/JA-2C00-66903
• Journal Information: Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 753; ISSN 1742-6588
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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