Power fluctuations from large wind farms-Final report
Poul Sørensen2009
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Abstract
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Key takeaways
- The validation is based on wind and power measurements from individual wind turbines in the two large offshore wind farms in Denmark: Horns Rev and Nysted.
- Besides power fluctuations, the project will develop aggregated models for wind farms, i.e. reduction of detailed models including individual models for all wind turbines to models where the whole wind farm is represented by a single wind farm with appropriate characteristics.
- [8], Energinet.dk has found that the active power supplied from the first large 160 MW offshore wind farm in this system, Horns Rev, is characterized by more intense fluctuations in the minute range than previously observed form the dispersed wind turbines on land, even though the installed power in Horns Rev is relatively small compared to the total 2400 MW wind power installation in the system.
- This is shown in Figure 17, where the wind speed of turbine A1 is compared to the average wind speed in Horns Rev (HR1) wind farm.
- The presented models are statistical models, based only on the observed wind speed and power measurements.
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