Offshore wind farm control systems will come under the microscope as part of the latest project to come out of the UK Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator programme.

The €2.3m ($2.7m) Wind Farm Control Trials (WFCT) project, backed by developers EnBW, E.ON, Innogy, Statoil and Vattenfall, is designed to demonstrate how honing control strategies across a wind farm rather than on individual turbines can further cut the cost of offshore wind power.