| CPC F03D 7/0268 (2013.01) [F05B 2270/32 (2013.01); F05B 2270/321 (2013.01); F05B 2270/327 (2013.01); F05B 2270/328 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |

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1. A control method for a wind turbine, wherein the wind turbine includes one or more blades and the control method comprises:
monitoring wind resource data at the location of a wind turbine and operation data of the wind turbine;
identifying a complicated wind condition based on the wind resource data and the operation data;
determining an accumulative proportion of time periods in which the complicated wind condition occurs within a first predetermined time period, wherein occurrence of the complicated wind condition comprises occurrences of any of multiple types of operating conditions, and the accumulative proportion of the time periods is a sum of weighted proportions of the time periods for the respective operating conditions occurring within the first predetermined time period; and
controlling the wind turbine to perform a protection operation, in response to the accumulative proportion of the time periods exceeding a first preset threshold.
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