You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .
Energies
  • This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon.
  • Article
  • Open Access

7 December 2025

Improving Large Wind Turbine Power Curve by Integrating Lidar-Measured Multiple Wind Parameters: A Coastal Case Study

,
,
,
and
1
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Extreme Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
2
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3
State Power Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing 100029, China
4
Aerospace Newsky Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 100854, China
Energies2025, 18(24), 6398;https://doi.org/10.3390/en18246398 
(registering DOI)
This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Power Generation and Wind Energy Utilization

Abstract

A new power curve that is suitable for describing large wind turbines with long blades is proposed in this study. Improving the accuracy of power generation curves for large wind turbines not only involves current wind turbine development trends but also facilitates the conversion to low-carbon energy. A large wind turbine in a coastal area (with a hub height of 135 m and a long blade length of 118 m) and multidimensional wind parameters observed by lidar were integrated. Correction factors such as the turbulence intensity (TI), gust factor, and wind shear exponent (WSE) were integrated into the velocity parameter Uc to establish a multi-parameter correction prediction model suitable for describing the power generation of large wind turbines. The daily variation and distribution depending on the atmospheric stability of the correction factor were analyzed. The power generation was closer to the classical power output curve after the correction factor was applied, and the corresponding correction coefficients were proposed. The power output was enhanced with the correction factor for small winds (<4 m s−1), however, the combined effects of turbulence, gust and wind shear mainly weakened the power generation for large winds of the wind turbine.

Article Metrics

Citations

Article Access Statistics

Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.