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Energy Improvement Assessment With Side-by-Side Analysis

Welcome back to our series looking at methodologies for assessing the energy improvement from wind turbine upgrades. In previous videos, we’ve shown that nacelle power curves aren’t reliable due to the interaction between turbine performance and the...

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Energy Improvement Assessment With LiDAR, Spinner Anemometer, or Met Tower Power Curve Tests

Welcome to the next installment in our search for an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible method to assess the energy improvement from wind...

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Why Nacelle Power Curves Can Be Misleading for Energy Improvement Assessments

In our last video, we laid out the basic requirements for a successful methodology to assess the energy improvement from wind turbine upgrades:...

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How to Correct Yaw Misalignment

We've spent quite a bit of time discussing yaw misalignment. Our past blogs have addressed what yaw misalignment is, the different types, how it can...

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How Does Yaw Misalignment Affect Power and Loads?

We've previously discussed yaw misalignment in-depth: what it is, what causes it, and how to measure it in your wind project. Today we'll be diving...

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WindESCo | What Is an Energy Improvement Assessment?

In every wind plant, operators are looking to maximize turbine performance to increase their AEP and their top-line revenue number. There are...

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Top 4 Ways to Detect Static Yaw Misalignment

One of the most common issues that wind farm operators face is static yaw misalignment. Because this problem is invisible to the turbine controller,...

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