A statistical investigation on wind energy potential of Northwest of Turkey

Usta, İlhan; Kantar, Yeliz Mert; Arik, Ibrahim; Yenılmez, İsmail

doi:10.1109/icemis.2016.7745315

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“…High wind speed values are desirable for wind farm installation. In particular, high altitude sites are very promising locations for wind power generation [26], whereas regions with moderate winds can be suitable for other applications such as local consumption, water pumping and agricultural applications [27]. The present study establishes the areas appropriate for each application in the region studied.…”

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Wind speed description and power density in northern Spain

Herrero-Novoa

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Sánchez

et al. 2017

Energy

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Wind resources are increasingly being investigated as a clean alternative for generating energy. This paper analyses the daily wind speed recorded at 46 automatic weather stations located in Navarre, northern Spain, in 2005e2015. Key points are the surface density of stations and the range of time that ensure a faithful depiction of wind speed together with surface calculations from image analysis and correlation with height. Different statistics were used. Median wind speed at 10 m was low, about 3.3 m s À1 and its interquartile range was narrow, about 2.3 m s À1. Nearly half the surface shows a median wind speed above 3.0 m s À1. The method of moments was employed to calculate the parameters of the Weibull distribution. Around half of the surface presented a shape parameter above 2.25 and the scale parameter was above 4 m s À1 for nearly 41% of the region. Although wind resources are not suitable for wind turbine applications in most of the region, since the wind speed is low in low-lying areas, about 12% of the region is suitable for stand-alone applications and, moreover, a substantial part of the region, around 23%, presents satisfactory wind resources for the installation of wind turbines.

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confidence: 66%