Optimization of Qualified Iranian Wind Farms Layout Using Modified Genetic Algorithm

After understanding the importance of renewable energy, specially, wind power, to specify the location of wind turbines is a main concern for developer of wind farm. The development of wind farms needs methods to optimize the technical and economic issues. One of the challenges for the optimization of wind farm turbines is position relative to each other. An important stage of a wind farm design is solving the wind farm layout optimization problem, which consists in optimally positioning the turbines within the wind farm so that the wake effects are minimized and therefore the expected power production maximized. This paper explains the wind farm layout optimization problem, gives an overview on the existing result, and broaches the challenges that may be overcome by future research. Some answers by GA may be unacceptable but with ways that will be pointed we convert them to acceptable answer.

Keywords:

wind turbine , wake effect , genetic algorithm , wind farm