US Patent Issued to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES on Sept. 15 for "Method for controlling a wind farm by means of an optimization method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,029, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method for controlling a wind farm by means of an optimization method" was invented by Ibtihel Ben Gharbia (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France), Paul Malisani (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France) and Fabrice Guillemin (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a wind farm control method implementing an acquisition (ACQ) of a wind speed and direction distribution, an acquisition of the wind speed and direction in real time (Vac), a wind farm model (MOD F) and a load model (MOD C) for each wind turbine. Finally...