Anti-wind farm activists repeatedly claim that families said to be adversely affected by noise from wind turbines "abandon" their homes. In Australia, a claim of "more than 40 families" has been made by a prominent anti-wind farm activist. Six sources (parliamentary submissions, media reports, an anti-wind farm website, wind industry sources, correspondence with known anti-wind farm activists a...

The development of large scale wind farms that can compete with conventional energy resources presents significant challenges to today’s wind energy industry. A powerful solution to these daunting challenges can be offered by a synergistic consideration of the key design elements (turbine selection and placement) and the variations in the natural resource. This paper significantly advances the ...

With the expansion of wind farm installations in most countries all over the world, the power generation has already significantly influenced on the stability and security of the power grid after gridconnection. Wind power forecasting is an effective method for guarantees stability of the power output from wind farm. This paper proposed an improved GM(1,1) based prediction method, and focuses o...

Abstract: The application of large scale energy storage makes wind farms more dispatchable, which lowers operating risks to the grid from interconnected large scale wind farms. In order to make full use of the flexibility and controllability of energy storage to improve the schedulability of wind farms, this paper presents a rolling and dispatching control strategy with a battery energy storage...

Reliability centred maintenance applied to a fleet of wind turbines is presented in this paper. The key components and failure modes are identified via analysis of maintenance records. Corrective actions which an operator can take to mitigate such failures are discussed, together with implementation issues. By developing a robust set of RCM tools, wind farm operators can better quantify and min...

In the recent years the wind turbine industry has focused on optimising the cost of energy. One of the important factors in the achievement of this task consists of increasing the reliability of the wind turbines, which can be obtained using advanced fault detection and isolation strategies. Clearly, most faults are managed quite easily at a wind turbine control level. However, some faults are ...

Different models for monitoring wind farm power output are considered. Data mining and evolutionary computation are integrated for building the models for prediction and monitoring. Different models using wind speed as input to predict the total power output of a wind farm are compared and analyzed. The k-nearest neighbor model, combined with the principal component analysis approach, outperfor...

This paper represents mitigation scheme of wind farm output power fluctuation in micro-grid system during grid and islanded mode. The impact of mitigation technique using sodium sulphur battery energy storage system is investigated during grid and islanded mode of micro-grid system. A micro-grid system with wind farm and photovoltaic system is used for the investigation of the mitigation of win...

The wind farm output power have the characteristics of dynamic, random, large capacity etc, which brought great difficulty for incorporating the wind farm in the bulk power system. In order to rationally regulate the power supply system in large grid connected wind power system and reduce the spinning reserve capacity of the power supply system and operating costs, it is necessary to forecastin...

In many countries wind turbines are rapidly growing in numbers as the demand for energy from renewable sources increases. The continued deployment of wind turbines can, however, be problematic for many radar systems, which are easily disturbed by turbines located in the radar line of sight. Wind turbines situated in the vicinity of Doppler weather radars can lead to erroneous precipitation esti...