Digital Commons Network^™

Multi-Objective Optimization Of Wind Farm Layouts Under Energy Generation And Noise Propagation, Cristina Amon, Wing Yin Kwong, Joaquin Moran, Michael Morgenroth, David Romeo, Peter Y. Zhang

Publications and Scholarship

Wind farm design deals with the optimal placement of turbines in a wind farm. Past studies have focused on energymaximization, cost-minimization or revenue-maximization objectives. As land is more extensively exploited for onshore wind farms, wind farms are more likely to be in close proximity with human dwellings. Therefore governments, developers, and landowners have to be aware of wind farms’ environmental impacts. After considering land constraints due to environmental features, noise generation remains the main environmental/health concern for wind farm design. Therefore, noise generation is sometimes included in optimization models as a constraint. Here we present continuous-location models for layout optimization …