Farm to farm wake interaction in wrf: Impact on power production

MAYOL, M.L.; SAULO, A.C.; OTERO, A.D.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

IOP Publishing Ltd

Año: 2021 vol. 1934

1742-6588

This work focuses on the study of interactions between neighboring wind farms through a mesoscale numerical modelling approach. High resolution simulations with three wind farm parameterizations (WFP, EWP and IAWFP), implemented on the WRF model, over a set of "real world"neighboring onshore wind farms are performed. The sensitivity of the three parameterizations to wake development is analyzed. The older version of the WFP is also included to account for differences between versions in terms of wake length and intensity, and TKE production and advection. Finally, the impacts of upstream wind farms are studied through a series of simulations where they are "disabled"and the increases in power at downstream farms are quantified. These results and the adopted methodology have direct application and are highly relevant for the feasibility assessment of new wind farms in the shadow of other existing ones.