Month: May 2019
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RUTE precast modular wind turbine foundation
Some days ago I have been contacted by Doug Krause, founder of RUTE – a green start up proposing an interesting solution for the wind turbine foundation. Taking inspiration from the technology used in bridge construction RUTE is proposing a system of post-tensioned beams connected to a central hub. Each beam has an anchor system…
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Wind farm optimization algorithms
I have always been amazed by the number of published papers, master thesis and documents focusing on the use of algorithms to optimize the layout of a wind farm. Some of them were proposed more than 25 years ago, showing a continuous, sustained interest in the topic. I guess that the reason for such abundance…