<story><title>A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2022/wind-farm-optimization-energy-flow-0811</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koheripbal</author><text>This only impacts wind farms when they are arranged such that the wind front passes over multiple turbines.&lt;p&gt;Often, wind turbines are arranged in a line across the usual wind front, so turbulence isn&amp;#x27;t typically an issue.&lt;p&gt;So, in this case, when wind passes over multiple nearby turbines serially, then there is a 1.2% gain on efficiency.&lt;p&gt;Still a worthwhile deployment if the model is accurate.  Needs to be tested.</text></comment>
<story><title>A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2022/wind-farm-optimization-energy-flow-0811</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Using global control instead of local control seems like such an obvious improvement that I wonder why it hasn&amp;#x27;t been used earlier. I wonder whether the real difficulty lies in getting the simulations accurate enough to make useful predictions.</text></comment>