Wind power plant controller for avoiding common cause shutdown
AssigneeVestas Wind Sytems A/S
InventorSøren Dalsgaard
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Abstract
A wind power plant, and its corresponding method of control, comprising a plurality of wind turbines and a power plant controller connected to at least a first and a second of the plurality of wind turbines, wherein the power plant controller is configured to detect a shutdown of the first wind turbine in response to current wind conditions, and wherein the power plant controller is further configured to control the second wind turbine such that an operating parameter of the second wind turbine is modified in response to detecting the automatic shutdown of the first wind turbine.
Claims20
A wind power plant, comprising:
- a plurality of wind turbines;
- and
- a power plant controller connected to at least a first and a second of the plurality of wind turbines, wherein the power plant controller is configured to:
- in response to receiving information indicating that the first wind turbine has shut down in response to current wind conditions, cause the second wind turbine to modify an operating parameter, thereby preventing a shutdown of the second wind turbine caused by the current wind conditions.
A method of controlling a wind power plant comprising a plurality of wind turbines, the method comprising:
- in response to receiving information indicating that a first wind turbine has shut down in response to current wind conditions, causing, via a power plant controller, a second wind turbine to modify an operating parameter, thereby preventing a shutdown of the second wind turbine caused by the current wind conditions.
A wind power plant control arrangement, comprising:
- a plurality of control units, each control unit corresponding to a distinct wind turbine in the wind power plant;
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- a power plant controller, configured to:
- receive information from a first control unit of the plurality of control units indicating that a corresponding first wind turbine of the wind power plant has shut down in response to current wind conditions, and
- in response to receiving the information, cause a second control unit of the plurality of control units, and corresponding to a second wind turbine of the wind power plant, to modify an operating parameter of the second wind turbine, thereby preventing a shutdown of the second wind turbine caused by the current wind conditions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.