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 hybrid 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.
WHOC is primarily developed with the support from the U.S. Department of Energy and is part of the WETO Software Stack. For more information and other integrated modeling software, see:
NREL's software record for WHOC is SWR-25-54.
Documentation for WHOC, including installation instructions, can be found here.
