Patent Document ID: 10100813
Application ID: 14551125
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for optimizing operation of a wind farm, the method comprising: providing a farm-level wake model for the wind farm based on historical wake parameters corresponding to reference sets of interacting wind turbines in the wind farm; monitoring one or more real-time wake parameters for wind turbines in the wind farm; identifying at least two interacting wind turbines from the reference sets of interacting wind turbines based on the real-time wake parameters; determining a wake offset angle between the two interacting wind turbines as a function of an average wind direction and a wake meandering component, the wake meandering component corresponding to a shift in a wake track due to lateral components of wind speed; continuously updating the farm-level wake model online based at least partially on the real-time wake parameters; and controlling the interacting wind turbines based on the updated farm-level wake model.