The project, which focused on honing turbine performance using forward-looking wind Lidar measurements captured by Avent's Wind Iris system, found that annual energy production can be boosted by 2.4% by correcting a 7.5-degree misalignment.
"Wind turbines traditionally rely on a wind vane mounted on the rear of the nacelle to measure the wind direction in order to control the yaw position of the turbine," says NREL field test engineer Andrew Scholbrock.
"Certain
