Wind Farm Control

I recently started working on a project in wind farm control. The goal is to regulate the voltage and reactive power output of the wind farm. Depending on the type, individual wind turbines can vary their output power, voltage, and power factor to some extent. Other actuators include power transmission equipment including capacitor banks, tap-changing transformers, and power electronic components. Future wind speeds and end-user power demands important but unknown, although they can be estimated.
This problem is similar to the HEV control problem: time-varying inputs and disturbances, multiple nonlinear actuators, hard and soft constraints, etc. The sheer number of components in the system requires careful assumptions and model reduction to get a feasible, accurate solution. I view this project as an opportunity to extend my control knowledge to other energy systems.