US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on April 8 for "Control of a renewable energy power plant to detect a control fault" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,948, issued on April 8, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Control of a renewable energy power plant to detect a control fault" was invented by Mads Rajczyk Skjelmose (Risskov, Denmark), Ines Pereira Barreira (Aarhus C, Denmark) and Kouroush Nayebi (Ikast, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating a renewable energy power includes receiving a measurement signal indicative of a measured power characteristic of the plant at a point of connection to a power network; controlling the plant 12) according to a normal mode of operation to provide power by determining and dispatching power set points, the pow...