Clustering-based data preprocessing for operational wind turbines

An efficient data science approach to creating asset groups

Left: Turbine clusters (image by author). Right: Photo by Philip May, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia

Introduction

Operating wind turbines generate streams of data while producing clean and renewable electricity for our daily use. The data is a time series of environmental, mechanical, and production variables and are obtained using the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.

Wind energy analyses typically require preprocessing of the SCADA data including identifying …

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