US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Nov. 18 for "Power production forecast based wind turbine control" (Australian, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,888, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Power production forecast based wind turbine control" was invented by Mu Wei (Solbjerg, Denmark), Thair Mahmoud (Williams Landing, Australia), Jacob Quan Kidmose (Risskov, Denmark), Manas Patankar (Glen Huntly, Australia), Hugh McKenzie (Middle Park, Australia) and Antonio Martinez (Oakleigh South, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining a power production capacity of at least one wind turbine connected to a power grid. The method includes receiving, e.g. from a power grid control center, a power production fore...