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CleverFarm final report

Abstract

Wind turbine technology has ventured in recent years from prototypes and first deployments towards large power plant scale projects. With this, also the ownership structure of wind farms changed: from single farmers to cooperatives, and to large multi-national developers specialised in building and running wind power projects. At the same time, the best sites for wind energy were already taken, leading to more remote sites and offshore sites being developed. Both these developments lead to an increased wish for remote monitoring of turbines. Ideally, the turbine would know on its own accord when it would need maintenance, and call the maintenance crew autonomously. The crew then would have all the information they need to have before they go out to the turbine and do the necessary tasks. Having knowledge of the type of fault that has happened would help the maintenance crew to deal with it efficiently. This also could mean to wait until the next scheduled maintenance is due. The potential savings for this alone are considerable, if you think of the plans for offshore wind farms tens of kilometres from the coast, where access would probably be by helicopter. The idea behind this project was to take the  More>>
Publication Date:
Sep 15, 2003
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
NEI-DK-4916
Reference Number:
TRN: DK0701190
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Sep 2003
Subject:
17 WIND ENERGY; WIND TURBINE ARRAYS; REMOTE CONTROL; FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION
OSTI ID:
20903083
Research Organizations:
SEAS, Haslev (Denmark)
Country of Origin:
Denmark
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: Contract ELKRAFT-0012; TRN: DK0701190
Availability:
Also available at http://www.risoe.dk/rispubl/NEI/nei-dk-4916.pdf; Commercial reproduction prohibited; OSTI as DE20903083
Submitting Site:
DK
Size:
62 pages
Announcement Date:
Aug 30, 2007

Citation Formats

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abstractNote = {Wind turbine technology has ventured in recent years from prototypes and first deployments towards large power plant scale projects. With this, also the ownership structure of wind farms changed: from single farmers to cooperatives, and to large multi-national developers specialised in building and running wind power projects. At the same time, the best sites for wind energy were already taken, leading to more remote sites and offshore sites being developed. Both these developments lead to an increased wish for remote monitoring of turbines. Ideally, the turbine would know on its own accord when it would need maintenance, and call the maintenance crew autonomously. The crew then would have all the information they need to have before they go out to the turbine and do the necessary tasks. Having knowledge of the type of fault that has happened would help the maintenance crew to deal with it efficiently. This also could mean to wait until the next scheduled maintenance is due. The potential savings for this alone are considerable, if you think of the plans for offshore wind farms tens of kilometres from the coast, where access would probably be by helicopter. The idea behind this project was to take the existing techniques developed for optimising and enhancing the performance of wind farms, integrate them into one system and implement the system at a number of wind farms. The techniques include remote measuring of the status and production of the wind farm, short-term prediction of the expected wind speeds at and power output from the wind farm, models for wake calculations, remote control of wind farm production and so on. (au)}
place = {Denmark}
year = {2003}
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