Wind Farm Control

Dear Colleagues,

I am very happy to invite you to submit papers to a Special Issue of the journal Energies on “Wind Farm Control”.
The topic of wind farm control (WFC) relates to a wide range of methods and strategies to operate the wind turbines within a wind farm in a coordinated way to achieve a common target. WFC targets (and therefore topics for this Special Issue) could include:

1. Reducing wake losses in order to increase the power production of the wind farm;
2. Mitigating structural loads on the turbines’ components in order to reduce maintenance costs or increase lifetime;
3. Ensuring that the active and reactive energy production comply with the infrastructural and contractual limitations;
4. Matching the energy demand at minimum cost; or
5. Supporting the grid stability by means of active and reactive power control.

While in the short term the focus lies on dealing with the practical implications related to the implementation of active wake control to boost the power production of wind farms (dynamic control, robustness to model and measurement uncertainty, turbine availability), in the long term WFC challenges relate to the implementation of a high share of wind into the energy system. Wind farms will need to be flexible enough to provide active and reactive power control to secure revenues in volatile markets and support grid operation. Furthermore, the integration of wind with other renewable sources, energy conversion systems, and energy storage systems will be needed in order to meet the demand variations and to comply with electricity transport limitations. Therefore, contributions proposing innovative controllers for hybrid renewable energy systems including energy generation, storage, and conversion are also acceptable for this Special Issue.
Four of the accepted papers will be nominated for free-of-charge processing in the special issue.

Looking forward to your contributions.

Dr. Stoyan Kanev
Guest Editor

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