A New Approach to Optimal Wind Farm Layout Design Considering Wake Effect

Due to wake effect, the construction of a wind farm requires a wide area of land. One of the main issues when planning a wind farm is the optimal wind farm layout design. This paper presents a new approach to the optimization of the wind farm layout, taking wake effect into consideration. The optimization problem is modelled with two objective functions, which are simultaneously optimized. The result of the optimization, considering wake effect, leads to the dependence between the wind farm Annual Energy Production (AEP) and the occupied area of the wind farm. The proposed procedure is verified using realistic measurement data of wind speed. The obtained results show that the suggested procedure can be successfully applied to the optimal wind farm layout design.