Patent ID: 8710692

Claim:
A wind farm comprising: a plurality of wind power plants, each equipped in a same manner with a pivoted rotor structure; and a control device for controlling the operation of the individual wind power plants, wherein the control device is structured and arranged to synchronize the rotary motions of the rotor structures of at least some of the plurality of wind power plants by one of: detecting the rotary motion of the rotor structure of one of the plurality of wind power plants via sensors on the wind power plant and communicating the detected rotary motion to control devices of other rotary structures of the plurality of wind structures to adjust the rotary motions of the other rotary structures with the detected rotary motion; or communicating with local controls of the plurality of wind power plants to receive one of an instantaneous rotary positions of the rotary structures of the plurality of wind power plants or rotary motions of the rotary structures of the plurality of wind power plants detected by sensors on the plurality of wind power plants; continuously forming an arithmetic average of rotation angles of the plurality of wind power plants; and communicating the arithmetic average of rotation angles to the local controls to adjust the respective rotary structures to the arithmetic average of rotation angles.