Chapter 21 - Wind farm control and optimization

Abstract

The investigation of wind farms attracts lots of researchers globally although their investment cost is quite high. Wind power, as a relatively new technology, still keeps enough research space on the study of cost reduction methods. Even a small improvement in the wind farm control or wind farm optimization can lead to a large sum of money saving. Hence, many works aim to maximize the energy production or minimize the investment cost of the whole wind farms. This chapter is organized as follows: Section 21.2 introduces wind farm active power dispatch methods. Wind farm reactive power dispatch is analyzed in Section 21.3. Wind farm layout optimization problem is presented in Section 21.4. In the end, this chapter is summarized in Section 21.5.