Frontier Wind, Llc.

Ge Infrastructure Technology, LLC

Guojian Lin

Edward Anthony Mayda

Jonathon Paul Baker

Erick James Rickards

Jeffrey Austin Butterworth

Tobias Guenther Wehrhan

Jehan Zeb Khan

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for actuating less than all of a plurality of load management devices on a wind turbine and/or a wind turbine blade. In some embodiments, the actuation sequences may be a root-to-tip, tip-to root, maximum-distributed-load, random, and/or a cycle-count actuation sequence. Further, a combination of two or more actuation sequences may be utilized to achieve a desired result. The system may choose an appropriate blade-based and/or rotor-based actuation sequence according to operating conditions, may alternate actuation sequences, and/or may employ different actuation sequences among the plurality of blades of a wind turbine. The load management devices may be actuated to different maximum heights and/or may be configured to be actuated to variable heights. The load management devices may be included as part of a distributed management system providing a corresponding controller and/or sensor at each load management device.

Actuation of distributed load management devices on aerodynamic blades

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