In a German research and development project a new control unit for system operators, the Wind Farm Cluster-Management (WCM) has been developed. It is able to co-ordinate the geographical distributed wind farms and represent them as one wind power plant for the system operators purposes. The pooling of several large (offshore-) wind farms to clusters in Gigawatt (GW) range will make new options feasible for an op-timised integration of intermittent generation into power supply systems. The concept is going to be realised in software which can be installed at the Transmission System Operators (TSO) grid control center. The WCM will be tested and verified with onshore wind farms in a demonstration phase. This paper de-scribes the concept of the WCM.
