Trails on aquintet of Nordex 2.5MW machines at ECN showed the technology, which would help a wind farm developer optimally position turbines to smooththe wake effects of turbulence, could also be expected to trim maintenance costs by 3%.
“This is a solution to substantially increase theproduction of the whole wind farm, while also reducing the load and maintenancecosts,” says ECN’s Haico van der Heijden.
