Maximizing power for turbines and farms

Technology Overview

Arctura is developing new wind turbine and wind farm control software to increase annual wind power production by 3-5%. Typical wind turbine controls are developed with ideal operating conditions in mind – conditions rarely experienced in the field. eXSeek™ uses a patented approach to continuously maximize power based on real-world operating conditions.

Individual Turbine Optimization

Wind turbines experience performance degradation for many reasons, like component aging, leading edge erosion, ice accumulation, and sensor failures. Factory-supplied control algorithms cannot fully capture these effects resulting in sub-optimal power production. Arctura’s approach combines real-time turbine operational data with proprietary algorithms that continuously maximize performance independent of the causes of performance degradation, improving instantaneous turbine power production by as much as 12%.

Wind Farm Optimization

Wind farms lose power when the wakes of upstream turbines negatively impact downstream turbines. Wake steering is an evolving industry approach for minimizing these losses by collectively optimizing the yaw direction of neighboring turbines. Arctura’s novel approach improves on existing methods and eliminates the need for high-fidelity wind sensor data altogether.