The American WAKE experimeNt, an international, multi-institutional effort to gather the most comprehensive data-set to date on how individual wind turbines interact with one another and the atmosphere on a wind farm, is well underway.
Wind Energy Technologies Office
January 22, 2023
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The American WAKE experimeNt (AWAKEN), an international, multi-institutional effort to gather the most comprehensive data-set to date on how individual wind turbines interact with one another and the atmosphere on a wind farm, is well underway. AWAKEN will use these data to better predict the future performances of wind farms, which could improve their overall efficiency. Instruments now installed at eight field sites across northern Oklahoma have been streaming real-time data since September 2022. The data are currently being uploaded in near-real time to DOE’s Atmosphere to Electrons Data Archive and Portal.