A simple technique to improve wind turbine misalignment detection

If a wind turbine is unable to align itself with the direction of wind flow it ends up generating sub-optimal amount of power leading to large financial losses. Traditionally, a lot of statistical analysis is required in order to detect turbine misalignment, potentially taking years for an exhaustive evaluation of multiple wind farms.

In this article, we provide a step-by-step intuition of developing a function that can accurately perform an exhaustive evaluation within seconds rather than years without the use of ML.