Optimization Under Uncertainty for Wake Steering Strategies
Abstract
Here, wind turbines in a wind power plant experience significant power losses because of aerodynamic interactions between turbines. One control strategy to reduce these losses is known as 'wake steering,' in which upstream turbines are yawed to direct wakes away from downstream turbines. Previous wake steering research has assumed perfect information, however, there can be significant uncertainty in many aspects of the problem, including wind inflow and various turbine measurements. Uncertainty has significant implications for performance of wake steering strategies. Consequently, the authors formulate and solve an optimization under uncertainty (OUU) problem for finding optimal wake steering strategies in the presence of yaw angle uncertainty. The OUU wake steering strategy is demonstrated on a two-turbine test case and on the utility-scale, offshore Princess Amalia Wind Farm. When we accounted for yaw angle uncertainty in the Princess Amalia Wind Farm case, inflow-direction-specific OUU solutions produced between 0% and 1.4% more power than the deterministically optimized steering strategies, resulting in an overall annual average improvement of 0.2%. More importantly, the deterministic optimization is expected to perform worse and with more downside risk than the OUU result when realistic uncertainty is taken into account. Additionally, the OUU solution produces fewer extreme yaw situationsmore »
- Authors:
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1373674
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5000-68984
Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 854; Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY; wake steering; wind energy; optimization under uncertainty; yaw; control
Citation Formats
Quick, Julian, Annoni, Jennifer, King, Ryan N., Dykes, Katherine L., Fleming, Paul A., and Ning, Andrew. Optimization Under Uncertainty for Wake Steering Strategies. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/854/1/012036.
Quick, Julian, Annoni, Jennifer, King, Ryan N., Dykes, Katherine L., Fleming, Paul A., & Ning, Andrew. Optimization Under Uncertainty for Wake Steering Strategies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/854/1/012036
Quick, Julian, Annoni, Jennifer, King, Ryan N., Dykes, Katherine L., Fleming, Paul A., and Ning, Andrew. Tue .
"Optimization Under Uncertainty for Wake Steering Strategies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/854/1/012036. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1373674.
@article{osti_1373674,
title = {Optimization Under Uncertainty for Wake Steering Strategies},
author = {Quick, Julian and Annoni, Jennifer and King, Ryan N. and Dykes, Katherine L. and Fleming, Paul A. and Ning, Andrew},
abstractNote = {Here, wind turbines in a wind power plant experience significant power losses because of aerodynamic interactions between turbines. One control strategy to reduce these losses is known as 'wake steering,' in which upstream turbines are yawed to direct wakes away from downstream turbines. Previous wake steering research has assumed perfect information, however, there can be significant uncertainty in many aspects of the problem, including wind inflow and various turbine measurements. Uncertainty has significant implications for performance of wake steering strategies. Consequently, the authors formulate and solve an optimization under uncertainty (OUU) problem for finding optimal wake steering strategies in the presence of yaw angle uncertainty. The OUU wake steering strategy is demonstrated on a two-turbine test case and on the utility-scale, offshore Princess Amalia Wind Farm. When we accounted for yaw angle uncertainty in the Princess Amalia Wind Farm case, inflow-direction-specific OUU solutions produced between 0% and 1.4% more power than the deterministically optimized steering strategies, resulting in an overall annual average improvement of 0.2%. More importantly, the deterministic optimization is expected to perform worse and with more downside risk than the OUU result when realistic uncertainty is taken into account. Additionally, the OUU solution produces fewer extreme yaw situations than the deterministic solution.},
doi = {10.1088/1742-6596/854/1/012036},
journal = {Journal of Physics. Conference Series},
number = ,
volume = 854,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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