Tony Lennon/Industry Manager – Industrial Automation and Machinery/Mathworks/www.mathworks.com Wind-farm developers must make accurate calculations about a farm’s capability to maintain its electrical output under scenarios that include wind availability, turbine conditions, and transmission-system interaction at the grid point of connection. Similar calculations are useful for a better understanding of the farm’s specified performance compared to…
Automating Wind-Power Forecasting
Paul Pilotte Technical marketing Manager Mathworks Natick, mass. www.mathworks.com Managing a wind-farm portfolio is a promising renewable energy business, but operators face risks and challenges. Wind farm operators selling power to wholesale electricity markets are looking for ways to maximize profits and reduce revenue uncertainty. To do so, they need software tools to analyze historical…
How Spanish nat-gas company forecasts for electrical market
GAS NATURAL FENOSA uses MATLAB software products to develop models that let the company project capacity and demand and optimize generation of asset portfolios. In particular, the company develops optimization and forecasting models that use historical usage patterns, weather forecasts, production costs and regulatory constraints, and other operational factors. As a result, the gas company…
Developing complex turbines with simpler model-based designs
Steve Miller, Technical Marketing Manager, Physical Modeling, MathWorks, Natick, Mass., mathworks.com Simulating a new turbine piece by piece allows working out the bugs where it’s easiest – in simulations. Wind turbines are more than a set of integrated systems working together to produce electrical power. They must also correctly interpret a range of environmental conditions…