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> Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world’s electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units. I
by rr888 4y ago
> Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world’s electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units.
I refuse to believe this, every wind engineer would know one windmill affects the next.
Its not as clear as the picture either where they are lined up. In most locations wind changes direction so for some flows they'll interact different to others.
- calt 4y agoWind engineers know this, but the software control work is non trivial and, apparently, simply hasn't been done. A few years ago I was talking with a family member who is in wind power research. They were trying to convince me to start writing turbine control software because it is massively inefficient and naive. I was shocked at some of the optimizations they are lacking.