Advanced integrated supervisory and

wind turbine control for optimal operation

of large Wind Power Plants
Fact Sheet

Project Information

TotalControl Funded under

H2020-EU.3.3.
Grant agreement ID: 727680 H2020-EU.3.3.2.

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Overall budget
€ 4 876 482,50
Start date End date
1 January 2018 31 May 2022 EU contribution
€ 4 876 482,50

Coordinated by
DANMARKS TEKNISKE
UNIVERSITET
  Denmark

Objective
Cost of energy (COE) is the most important single factor in deployment of
renewables in the energy system. Reduction of COE is, among other things, directly
related to operational control of Wind Power Plants (WPP) as a whole and the
individual wind turbines (WT) within them. In the Total Control project the COE
reduction will be pursued by developing and validating advanced integrated
WPP/WT control schemes, where all essential interactions between the WPP WT’s
are accounted for including both production and load aspects.
Optimal WPP control is traditionally formulated as a one-parameter optimization
problem focusing on the WPP production only. However, ultimately the optimal WPP

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performance should result from a multi objective optimization problem, where the
optimal economic performance of a WPP is pursued over the WPP life time,
conditioned on external grid demands. This is what Total Control is about.
The suggested integrated WPP/WT control approach seeks the optimal economical
WPP revenue – i.e. the optimal economic balance between WPP power production
and WPP operational costs. This is done by developing hierarchically coupled WPP
and WT control schemes conditioned on a set of superior grid operator demands.
In the WPP control design phase information is only fed from the WPP controller to
the individual WT controllers, whereas in on-line operational control available WT
and WPP flow field information will be assimilated into the WPP control for optimal
system performance. Furthermore, the WPP controller will also make use of current
market information (e.g. energy price, demand for ancillary services etc.) as well as
information about the state of individual turbines (e.g. current operational state,
maintenance requirements and component lifetime consumption) to allow COE
objectives to be optimised dynamically.

Programme(s)

Topic(s)

Call for proposal

H2020-LCE-2016-RES-CCS-RIA

Funding Scheme

Coordinator

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET

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Address Activity type EU contribution
Anker Engelundsvej 1 Higher or Secondary € 1 637 500
Bygning 101 A Education Establishments
2800 Kgs Lyngby
  Denmark

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Participants (7)

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 KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
  Belgium

EU contribution
€ 626 875

Address Activity type

Oude Markt 13 Higher or Secondary
3000 Leuven Education Establishments

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 SINTEF ENERGI AS
  Norway

EU contribution
€ 1 068 156,25

Address Activity type

Sem Saelandsveg 11 Research Organisations
7465 Trondheim

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 GARRAD HASSAN & PARTNERS LTD

  United Kingdom

EU contribution
€ 599 250

Address Activity type

One Linear Park Avon Street Private for-profit entities
Temple Quay (excluding Higher or
BS2 0PS Bristol Secondary Education
Establishments)

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 VATTENFALL AB
  Sweden

EU contribution
€ 202 500

Address Activity type

Evenemangsgatan 13 Private for-profit entities
169 56 Stockholm (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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 OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY CATAPULT

  United Kingdom

EU contribution
€ 567 201,25

Address Activity type

Offshore House Albert Street Research Organisations
NE24 1LZ Blyth
Northumberland

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 SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY AS

  Denmark

EU contribution
€ 95 000

Address Activity type

Borupvej 16 Private for-profit entities
7330 Brande (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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 EQUINOR ASA
  Norway

EU contribution
€ 80 000

Address Activity type

Forusbeen 50 Private for-profit entities
4035 Stavanger (excluding Higher or
Secondary Education
Establishments)

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Last update: 20 September 2021

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Record number: 212578

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