How can an understory of LAVTS increase the capacity factor of a wind farm and improve grid efficiency?
A problem facing the wind industry is the low capacity factors of wind farms and of the transmission lines that export the energy from them. Each wind farm has an electrical substation that is sized to handle the collective maximum power generating capacity of the wind farm generators. If the rotor swept area and thus the collective power capacity of the wind farm is increased by adding LAVTS without increasing the size of the substation, there has to be a control that shuts down turbines as the wind builds to protect the substation. By doing this, it is possible to get substation capacity factors higher than 50%, especially by using with the high capacity factor Model 3000 LAVTS. The WHI type of VAWT is less vulnerable to high-speed turbulent winds than the HAWTs. Therefore one shut off control paradigm would be to double the rotor swept area of the wind farm with both systems generating in the lower winds, and as the winds increase and the substation’s power capacity is approached, t
