US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Aug. 19 for "Wind turbine spinning reserve with selectable confidence level" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,322, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Wind turbine spinning reserve with selectable confidence level" was invented by Kouroush Nayebi (Ikast, Denmark) and Jacob Jensen (Skodstrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control techniques for controlling a reliability of a spinning reserve of a wind turbine to be tailored to a user's reliability preference are disclosed. In one aspect, a control technique includes operating a wind turbine in a spinning reserve mode to provide a spinning reserve; calculating an available power of the wind turbine when operating in the spinning reserve mod...