Optimizing the layout of wind turbines by upgrading a wind farm

Abstract

The optimization of the size of wind farms is little studied in the literature. The objective of this study is to renew the existing wind farms by inserting new wind turbines with different characteristics. To evaluate our approach, a genetic algorithm was chosen to optimize our objective function, which aims to maximize the power of the wind farm studied at a reasonable cost, the Jensen wake model was chosen for the power calculation of the park. The results obtained from the simulation on the Horns-rev wind farm showed a significant increase in energy and a relatively reasonable cost of energy.