Innovative control to enhance wake mixing control in floating wind farms: active wake mixing techniques. Innovation: Complete new approach to designing floaters to enhance wake mixing by which wind speed can be significantly increased downstream.

Within wind farms the interaction between turbines through their wake causes a loss in potential power production for the entire farm. Typically wind farms are designed in such a fashion as to minimize this effect, but these methods are only effective for small wind farms. As wind farms grow these techniques become less effective. Recently active techniques, whereby active control is used, have also shown to have potential in reducing this wake-toturbine interaction and increasing overall power production. Floating wind turbines potentially offer a large potential in the sense that the fact that they float can be exploited. By either designing the floater and/or controlling it, certain movements can be induced that are shown to significantly aid in reducing the interaction between turbines allowing for a higher power production for an otherwise identical wind farm.