Overview

The SUMR-D CART2 turbine data are recorded by the CART2 wind turbine's supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) SUMR-D project located at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Flatirons Campus. For the project, the CART2 wind turbine was outfitted with a highly flexible rotor specifically designed and constructed for the project. More details about the project can be found here: https://sumrwind.com/. The data include power, loads, and meteorological information from the turbine during startup, operation, and shutdown, and when it was parked and idle.

Data Details

Additional files are attached:
sumr_d_5-Min_Database.mat - a database file in MATLAB format of this dataset, which can be used to search for desired data files; sumr_d_5-Min_Database.xlsx - a database file in Microsoft Excel format of this dataset, which can be used to search for desired data files; loadcartU.m - this script loads in a CART data file and puts it in your workspace as a Matlab matrix (you can call this script from your own Matlab scripts to do your own analysis); charts.mat - this is a dependency file needed for the other scripts (it allows you to make custom preselections for cartPlotU.m); cartLoadHdrU.m - this script loads in the header file information for the data file (the header is embedded in each data file at the beginning); cartPlotU.m - this is a graphic user interface (GUI) that allows you to interactively look at different channels (to use it, run the script in Matlab, and load in the data file(s) of interest; from there, you can select different channels and plot things against each other; note that this script has issues with later versions of MATLAB; the preferred version to use is R2011b).

Data Quality

Wind turbine blade loading data were calibrated using blade gravity calibrations prior to data collection and throughout the data collection period. Blade loading was also checked for data quality following data collection as strain gauge measurements drifted throughout the data collection. These drifts in the strain gauge measurements were removed in post processing.