DNV Introduces Wind Control JIP Entailing Major Firms, Wind Farm Owners

DNV Introduces Wind Control JIP Entailing Major Firms, Wind Farm Owners

Norway-based energy management firm DNV has introduced a Joint Industry Project (JIP). The JIP includes  owners of wind farms, turbine manufacturers and other profesionals from the wind energy sector. It has been formed with a view to augment confidence in wind farm control (WFC) technology, which entails models and procedures needed to control each turbine in a wind farm by way of wake steering and induction control. This is done in a way that helps maximise the cumulative production from a wind farm. The performance of the wind farm is enchanced greatly.

Some of the firms in the JIP entail EDF Renewables, Enel Green Power, Engie, Equinor, GE Renewable Energy, Greencoat, Iberdrola/Scottish Power, Pattern, RES, RWE, Shell, Vestas, Windey and Ørsted.

Ditlev Engel, CEO Energy Systems at DNV, remarked, “DNV launches this joint industry project to demonstrate the value of this promising wind control technology, which may become as common as energy yield assessment and equally necessary to wind projects.” He further added, “It’s tremendous to see that many key players in the wind industry unite to further the development of technologies that will have an immense benefit for the sector, and society at large. The more we can optimise the output of wind farms, the faster we will achieve our global climate goals.”

Anne Vedel, SVP Product Solutions & Integration at Vestas Power Solutions, opined, “Implementing intelligent wind farm control and thereby increasing the efficiency of wind power plants will be one of the key enablers for securing the green energy transition. Implementing new technology requires careful validation in order to make sure that we don’t compromise the quality or performance of our products, which is why we join this program. Improving existing products through innovation, rather than implementing unproven new technology, is key for us to ensure sustainable and reliable product development.”

Wind farm control promises assets’ performances and an increase in revenue while also bringing down operational turbine loading. The life of turbines is also enhanced.