The Wind Hybrid Open Controller (WHOC) is a python-based tool for real-time plant-level wind farm control and wind-based hybrid plant control. WHOC will primarily be run in simulation, although we intend that it could be used for physical plants in future.
WHOC will provide simple farm-level (and hybrid plant-level) controls such as wake steering control, spatial filtering/consensus, active power control, and coordinated control of hyrbid power plant assets; and create an entry point for the development of more advanced controllers.
WHOC will interface with various simulation testbeds and lower level controllers, including:
WHOC controllers will also call on design tools such as FLORIS.
Documentation for WHOC can be found on nrel.github.io