Patent ID: 8694171

Claim:
A wind farm, comprising: a plurality of wind turbine generators that are grouped into a plurality of groups based on a predetermined criterion; and a management device that manages data about the plurality of wind turbine generators, wherein each of the plurality of wind turbine generators includes a control system, wherein the control system includes: a transmission part for transmitting data about a controlled wind turbine generator among the plurality of wind turbine generators to other wind turbine generators; a reception part for receiving data about the other wind turbine generators transmitted from the other wind turbine generators that belong to a group to which the controlled wind turbine generator belongs; and, a control part for controlling the controlled wind turbine generator based on the data about the controlled wind turbine generator and the data received by the reception part about the other wind turbine generators that belong to the group to which the controlled wind turbine generator belongs; wherein the control system changes the criterion according to wind conditions or operational states of the plurality of wind turbine generators, and wherein the transmission part included in a predetermined control system, among the control systems provided for the plurality of wind turbine generators, transmits, to the management device, the data about a wind turbine generator controlled by the predetermined control system and the data received by the reception part about the other wind turbine generators that belong to the group to which the controlled wind turbine generator belongs.