Description: The classical operation strategy of a wind farm works with a principle that each wind turbine converting as much aerodynamic power as available the incoming airflow. But this does not guarantee that the power converted by the whole wind farm be a maximum due to the wake effect. Unlike the conventional operation, this paper proposes the collaborative setting of the operation point of each turbine so that the overall production of the wind farm is maximized. The optimization is performed by Matlab Global Optimization Toolbox(GOT) based on a PARK wake model accompany with the area-weighted quadratic sum method. The strategy was proved applicable in many cases by sensitivity analysis. As an important side effect, the proposed method also allows decreasing the added turbulence, hence the mechanical load produced by wakes. As a consequence, the overall wind farm availability is increased.
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