Project Partners
Start Date:
October, 2023
Completion Date:
Overview
This JIP aims to develop new methods to study cluster wakes and enhance existing tools like FLORIS to better account for farm-to-farm wake effects. The project will use a multi-fidelity optimization framework to identify key criteria for future turbine spacing and help select new wind energy sites on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The findings, including the combined power losses from cluster wake effects of multiple arrays, will be presented on a geo-spatial map so that regulators and other decision-makers will be able to use the data in order to optimize future U.S. offshore wind production.
NOWRDC's Role
NOWRDC has collaborated closely with NREL and project participants to oversee and facilitate this initiative. As the primary contracting entity, we have managed project meetings and data sharing. This JIP serves as a roadmap for future industry-funded projects, leveraging NOWRDC’s role as an independent third party to bridge the gap between industry and government.
Image: Difference in wind speeds at 150 m height from two mesoscale model simulations: one including the presence of wind farms, and one without.
Objectives
- Understand and quantify intensity and frequency of regional meteorological conditions leading to the persistence of downstream cluster wakes.
- Assess the performance impacts on existing lease areas from possible new leases by considering thousands of new lease area scenarios.
- Through JIP collaboration - recommend metrics for inter-array spacing to aid in future lease area identification.
- Calibrate multi-fidelity modeling tools to the participants-specific needs to allow independent inter- and intra-array impact analysis.