In Short

What?

The FarmConners Market Showcases are basically:

  • Datasets of electricity prices and inflow (wind speed and direction)
  • To be used as input to wind farm control (WFC)
  • When simulating a reference wind farm

Why?

Some (of all the good) reasons why you should participate are:

  • Relative evaluation of your tool/approach together with others
  • Revenue estimation for your tool/approach which could be handy when applying for future projects
  • Co-authorship of the resulting FarmConners paper
  • Your own publication about details of implementation and results
  • Collaboration with researchers at leading European institutions in the field of wind farm control
  • Supporting the advancement of wind farm control
  • It is fun

How?

  1. Register here
  2. Set up the reference wind farm (or the simplified version) in your simulation tool
  3. Run a simulation without WFC using the showcases data as input (nominal case)
  4. Run a simulation with WFC using the showcases data as input
  5. Submit your results

At any time, contact us if you have questions.

Data format

The data is provided in CSV files.

  • Binned data for the Market Showcases with 1. high electricity prices and 2. low electricity prices is organized like
    Wind direction bin center Wind Speed bin center WS HubHeight mean WS 50m mean WS 80m mean WS 100m mean WS 150m mean Wdir HubHeight mean Wdir 50m mean Wdir 80m mean Wdir 100m mean
    Wdir 150m mean Ustar HubHeight mean Ustar 50m mean Ustar 80m mean Ustar 100m mean Ustar 150m mean TI HubHeight mean DA 2020 mean
  • Data for the TSO-driven Market Showcase is organized like
    WS HubHeight WS 50m WS 80m WS 100m WS 150m Wdir HubHeight Wdir 50m Wdir 80m Wdir 100m Wdir 150m Ustar HubHeight Ustar 50m Ustar 80m Ustar 100m Ustar 150m TI HubHeight

Inspiration?

Here are some examples of implementation/workflow for different tools.

For power objectives For power & load objectives
  • Low Cost WF Setup
    Steady-state tools (FLORIS, Fuga, etc.)
  • Medium Fidelity/Cost WF Setup
    FAST.Farm or similar
  • Simulations for ‘bins’ & control settings for
    • Wind speed bin center \(\pm 1m/s\)
    • Wind direction center \(\pm 15^\circ\)
    • Control settings per turbine
      • Steering: \(0^\circ\): \(-5^\circ\): \(-35^\circ\)
      • Down-regulation: 5%: 5%: 30%
      • Combinations!
  • Simulations for chosen ‘bins’ & control settings for
    • Wind speed bin center \(\pm 1m/s\)
    • Wind direction center \(\pm 15^\circ\)
    • Control settings per turbine
      • Steering: \(0^\circ\): \(-5^\circ\): \(-35^\circ\)
      • Down-regulation: 0%, 5%: 5%: 30%
      • 20-min runs
  • Build a surrogate
  • Optimize for
    • High-price -> revenue increase
  • Optimize for
    • High-price -> revenue increase
    • Low-price -> load alleviation
    • TSO-driven -> load alleviation