Yaw Control: The Forgotten Controls Problem (Paper)

This paper presents yaw misalignment and power data collected from an operating utility-scale wind turbine. We further present statistics indicating that all farms considered in this study demonstrated similar results. Finally, we demonstrate that accurate alignment with the inflow increases the captured power and energy.

This paper was published to accompany Catch the Wind's poster presentation of the same title at the European Wind Energy Association's Annual Conference and Exhibition, March 16, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.
EWEA 2011 Poster Paper_Yaw Control: The Forgotten Controls Problem