Catching the Wind: An Update on Improved Yaw Alignment

This paper presents results based on 19 months of testing on utility scale wind turbines, which show the improvements in wind turbine control and average energy output that can be gained by measuring the free stream wind flow in front of the turbine.

These results show that the Vindicator® LWS consistently generated 14% increased energy output as compared to legacy instrumentation, with optimization experiments showing increased energy output in excess of 20%.
EWEA 2011_Catching the Wind - An Update on Improved Yaw Alignment