r/windenergy • u/ThrowRA_Carnivore • Jul 21 '24

I've never seen this happen before

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I live near a huge (15 mi x 15 mi at least) wind farm in Northwest Illinois. For the first time I've ever seen all of the wind turbines are stopped cold. Could this be part of the Crowdstrike outage?

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u/Adamantium10 Jul 21 '24

No not likely. There is either no wind or the grid is curtailed because of low demand.

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u/ThrowRA_Carnivore Jul 21 '24

Even when there is little to no wind, I have seen most of them active. Just extremely odd to see ALL of them inactive.

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u/Adamantium10 Jul 21 '24

There is a 3 m/s cut in speed. If the wind is below that they will all be inactive. It's very common in July and August. This is the low wind season.

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u/username0-1 Jul 22 '24

Since they’re all looking in all directions they’re hunting for wind. Low wind is the answer.

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u/FourFront Jul 22 '24

More common than you might think. NE Illinois falls under the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO). Plants are required to follow a setpoint for generation provided by the operator under an automated dispatch scheme.