Computational intelligence techniques for placement of wind turbines: A brief plan of research in Saudi Arabian perspective

Placement of wind turbines (WTP) in a wind farm is a complex optimization problem, consisting of a number of design objectives and constraints. Although computational intelligence techniques have been applied to solve different versions of this problem, use of these techniques has been very limited to date. In this paper, we identify a number of computational intelligence techniques that have not been fully explored, or not explored at all, to efficiently solve the WTP problem. A research plan to utilize computational intelligence techniques to wind farm design layout in the context of Saudi Arabia has been briefly discussed.