power output of wind farm is sum of individual turbine?

[yinxiEquinor]

based on the wind_farm.get_installed_power(), the power output of a wind farm is sum of individual turbine output without considering interference among turbines. Is there a more accurate method available?

def get_installed_power(self): r""" Calculates the installed power of the wind farm. The installed power of wind farms is necessary when a :class:~.wind_turbine_cluster.WindTurbineCluster object is used and it's power weighed mean hub height is calculated with :py:func:~.wind_turbine_cluster.WindTurbineCluster.mean_hub_height. Returns

    float
        Installed power of the wind farm.
    """
    return sum(
        wind_dict['wind_turbine'].nominal_power *
        wind_dict['number_of_turbines']
        for wind_dict in self.wind_turbine_fleet)

[SabineHaas]

Thank you for sharing your question, @yinxiEquinor!

The interference among turbines can be taken into account in two different ways in the windpowerlib. Both ways are described in more detail in the documentation:

(1) wind efficiency curves which determine the average reduction of wind speeds within a wind farm induced by wake losses depending on the wind speed --> see reduce_wind_speed()

(2) applying wake losses to power curves by reducing the power values by a constant or on a wind speed depending wind farm efficiency --> see wake_losses_to_power_curve()

The installed power of a wind farm instead can for example be used for calculating a power weighted mean hub height of several wind farms (turbine cluster). This is useful if you want to calculate a feed-in time series by summing up all wind farm power curves.

[SabineHaas]

Sorry for closing the issue, I hit the wrong button;)