Patent ID: 8858174

Claim:
A method for operating a wind turbine, comprising: providing a wind turbine having at least one blade having an adjustable pitch angle; monitoring the tip speed ratio (TSR) of the at least one blade; identifying a high power coefficient (C p ) operational region for the at least one blade; performing the following steps in sequential order to maximize an amount of time turbine operation is within the identified C p region: increasing the pitch angle of the at least one blade concurrently with an increase in TSR to maintain turbine operation within the identified C p region, wherein concurrently increasing the pitch angle of the at least one blade with the TSR reduces a generator torque of the wind turbine; and, increasing the pitch angle of the at least one blade concurrently with a decrease in TSR so as to limit a power output of the wind turbine to a rated power for the wind turbine.