An electromechanical model of the TotalControl Reference Wind Power Plant has been built. This is based on SINTEF's STAS software, for the system dynamics and control of wind power plants. An overview is given of the theory behind the STAS software, and the architecture of the system model. A wind t...

Cumulative O&M costs of offshore wind farms can amount to 38% of lifetime costs. In wind farms, upstream turbine wakes can result in up to 80% higher fatigue loads at downstream wind turbines. The present work therefore investigates to reduce wind turbine fatigue loads during the provision of gr...

Motivated by the need to develop reference wind energy systems for optimisation and technology assessment studies, the International Energy Agency Wind Task 37 on Wind Energy Systems Engineering is developing a reference offshore wind power plant at the Dutch offshore wind energy areas Borssele III ...