UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell ’ Informazione-DEI Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria dell ’ Automazione Mixed Integer Programming Models and Algorithms for Wind Farm Layout

The aim of the thesis is the optimization of wind farm layout: given a specific wind farm site and wind data for the site, an optimal location of turbines is determined such that the power production is maximized and wake effects and other constraints are taken into account. Several Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models and ad-hoc heuristics have been proposed, and a new approach for very large-scale instances has been developed. Tests on real data show the effectiveness of our method