A novel control strategy approach to optimally design a wind farm layout

Renewable Energy

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 10-21

  Wang, Longyan ^a   Tan, Andy ^a,b   Gu, Yuantong ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Grid based method; Optimized control strategy; Self optimum control strategy; Unrestricted coordinate method; Wind farm control optimization; Wind farm layout optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; OPTIMIZATION; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONTROL OPTIMIZATION; GRID BASED METHOD; OPTIMIZED CONTROL; OPTIMUM CONTROL; UNRESTRICTED COORDINATE METHOD; WIND FARM LAYOUT OPTIMIZATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

AIRFLOW; ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84962345592     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.03.104     Document Type: Article

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