Mitigating cluster wake induced power losses at neighboring wind farms through cluster-wide coordinated control

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An undesired side effect is “wind theft”, where the wake of one farm reduces the energy available to a downstream farm. The consequent power losses threaten the revenue, discourage investments in new projects, and spark legal disputes between operators that attract attention from the industry and policymakers. In this work, we propose the first technical solution to mitigate cluster wakes as an alternative to compensation payments. Each turbine follows a farm-wide coordinated control scheme to operate the farm as a single distributed actuator. We demonstrate that this approach can reduce upstream blockage and wake intensity, enabling wind farm operators to mitigate downstream power losses and maximize the collective power output. These results offer a new paradigm for a more equitable and efficient wind energy harvesting. 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