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In a boost for the future of wind energy, engineers show how turbines can work together to reduce turbulence on wind farms, mitigating one of the huge cons of wind energy.
Researchers at MIT investigate if there is a way to optimize the energy output of wind farms and generate more power, without the need for any extra investment in turbine hardware.
MIT engineers have developed a method to increase wind farms’ energy output. Whereas individual turbines are typically controlled separately, the new approach models the wind flow of the entire collection of turbines and optimizes the control of individual units.
Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world's electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units. In
Caption: First row, left to right: Navid Azizan, Rodrigo Freitas, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Jack Hare. Second row, left to right: Samuel Hopkins, Michael Howland, Yoon Kim, Adrian Lozano-Duran, Kelly Metcalf Pate. Third row, left to right: Anand Natarajan, Jelena Notaros, Carlos Portela, Ashia Wilson, Sixian You. Previous image Next image The School of Engineering is welcoming 15 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, labs, and centers. With research and teaching activities ranging from the development of robotics and AI technolog...