Patent ID: 8503443

Claim:
A method of controlling a wind turbine in a wind power plant, the wind turbine comprising a wind turbine controller and at least one connected wind turbine component, the method comprising: receiving, at the wind turbine controller, data packets originating from a central controller, wherein at least one of said data packets is a write/read instruction, the write/read instruction comprising one or more instructions that effectuate both a write function and a read function in the wind turbine; and upon determining that the one of said data packets is the write/read instruction and during a first control loop execution in the central controller: effectuating a write instruction based on a desired value contained in the write/read instruction, the write instruction setting the desired value as a set point of active power generated by the wind turbine component, wherein the desired value sets a desired active power to be generated by the wind turbine component, retrieving a current value of the active power generated by the wind turbine component, and transmitting the current value to said central controller upon reception of the current value from the at least one of the wind turbine component, wherein the central controller is configured to determine, during a second control loop execution, an updated value for the set point of the active power based on the current value, and wherein the updated value is received at the wind turbine controller in a subsequently transmitted write/read instruction.