NextEra Wake Steering; NREL Tracking No. 17-003 Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308 CX(s) Applied: B3.1 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Date: 03/23/17 Location(s): CO Office(s): Golden Field Office
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NextEra Wake Steering; NREL Tracking No. 17-003
Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308
CX(s) Applied: B3.1
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Date: 03/23/2017
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with NextEra, is proposing to conduct field studies and data gathering to study the interactions of multiple wind turbines in wind farms, specifically how the wakes of individual turbines affect those that are located down wind.
The field studies would take place within a five turbine cluster on the Peetz Wind Farm in NE Colorado. NREL researchers plan to install a met tower, a LIDAR, and two SODAR units around the turbine cluster.