Software development for the prediction of interferences in wind farms

One of the environmental effects of wind farms is that they wind turbines act as scattering devices of the electromagnetic RF waves and thus, may cause interferences to different telecommunication services around them. A software application that has been developed to predict the interference caused by wind farms to TV broadcast service is presented in this paper. An extension of the RCS model of a wind turbine, adding a scattering model of the nacelle, is shown. The developed software is explained, along with different measurements carried out to adjust and validate the functionality of the software.