Hybrid power plant optimization for inclement weather
AssigneeVestas Wind Systems A/S
InventorsKarthikeya Balladi Raghuchandra, Loránd Demsa
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Abstract
Embodiments herein describe optimizations for hybrid power plants that include wind turbine generators and photovoltaic generators by determining solar tracking setpoints for a field of photovoltaic generators co-located with a wind turbine generator, wherein the solar tracking setpoints orient a collector face for each photovoltaic generator sunward; in response to determining based on data received from the wind turbine generator that an airborne impactor event is occurring, adjusting the solar tracking setpoints to reposition the collector face out of a trajectory for airborne impactors; and transmitting the setpoints to tracking motors for the photovoltaic generators of the field.
Claims13
A hybrid power plant, comprising:
- a field of photovoltaic generators;
- at least one wind turbine generator co-located with the field of photovoltaic generators;
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- a control system, comprising one or more controller units configured to implement an operation, comprising:
- determining solar tracking setpoints for the field of photovoltaic generators, wherein the solar tracking setpoints orient a collector face for each photovoltaic generator sunward;
- in response to determining based on data received from the at least one wind turbine generator that an airborne impactor event is occurring, adjusting the solar tracking setpoints to actively reposition the collector face at least partly out of a trajectory for airborne impactors;
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- transmitting the solar tracking setpoints to tracking motors for the photovoltaic generators of the field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.