ARROW Internship Spotlight

Ireland's first and only operational offshore wind farm at the Arklow Bank Wind Park (Phase 1), off the coast of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Constructed in 2003/04, the seven wind turbines have a capacity of 25.2 MW and they are owned and operated by GE Energy. By Neil Michael (16.11.21)

Stephen Ampleman, a mechanical engineering PhD student from Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, spent the summer working with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to develop supervisory control laws for hybrid power plants. These hybrid power plants, which typically consist of an aggregation of renewables and energy storage, are complex systems requiring control strategies to account for multiple objectives and, at times, conflicting constraints. “I’m very grateful to the team at PNNL for hosting me this summer and giving me the opportunity to work on this project. From learning about how hybrid energy systems are modeled, to designing a control law to efficiently manage them, it was a very rewarding experience.”

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