Advanced study of the atmospheric flow Integrating REal climate conditions to enhance wind farm and wind turbine power production and increase components durability

为了提供未来所需的可再生能源容量，风电场开发商将不得不在更高的海拔使用更大的涡轮机，探索新的地理区域和海上场地。目前，风力涡轮机和风力发电场的设计和运行考虑到“只是”风的条件。因此，这些模型没有考虑到高空大气风流的物理学和空气动力学，也没有考虑到地点、降水和/或沙子的影响。这降低了风能生产的预期效率，并且难以估计叶片和涡轮机的能量输出、运营成本和寿命，增加了投资者和项目开发商在设计风电场时的可变性和风险，减少了总潜在投资。除非能够确定并优化设计新的站点，否则LCOE将开始上升，因为开发商必须设计无法用传统模型很好预测的风电场。AIRE联盟预测，风力带来的降水和其他事件（云、沙、切变、流入）将成为风力涡轮机选址、风电场设计、组件设计和O&M战略规划的新关键参数。AIRE将研究解决方案，以评估真实的气候条件在不同地形和不同海拔的陆上和海上的潜在影响，从4个实验场地和4个商业风电场收集信息。特别是AIRE将汇集研究人员，叶片制造商和公用事业公司，以创建一个开放的实验数据知识中心，开发新的数值模型，构建设计和控制风力涡轮机和风电场的工具。所开发的工具和模型的有效性将使用商业风电场的数据进行验证。

To deliver the future needed renewable energy capacity, wind farm developers will have to use larger turbines, at higher altitudes, explore novel geographical regions and offshore sites. Currently, wind turbines and wind farms are designed and operated considering “just” wind conditions. Consequently, the models do not take into account the physics and aerodynamics of atmospheric wind flows at high altitudes, neither how this is affected by the location, the effect of precipitation and/or sand. This reduces the expected efficiency of wind energy production, and makes hard to estimate the energy outputs, operating costs and lifespan of blades and turbines, increasing variability and the risk to investors and project developers when designing wind farms, reducing the total potential investment. Unless new sites can be identified and designed optimally, the LCOEs will start to rise as developers have to design wind farms that cannot be well predicted with conventional models. The AIRE consortium foresees precipitation and other events (clouds, sand, shear, inflow) that wind brings into the state of play to be the new key parameters for siting of wind turbines, wind farm design, component design and O&M strategies planning. AIRE will investigate solution to assess the potential impact of REAL climate conditions in different terrains, and different altitudes both onshore and offshore, gathering information from 4 experimental sites and 4 commercial wind farms. Specially AIRE will bring together researchers, blade manufacturers and utilities to create an open access knowledge hub of experimental data, develop new numerical models, build tools to design and control wind turbines and wind farms. The effectiveness of the developed tools and models will be validated using data from commercial wind farms.