Reducing the cost of wind resource assessment: using a regional wind power forecasting method for assessment

Abstract

Wind energy, with its high potential, has an important place among renewable energy sources. Therefore, the number of investments on wind energy is increasing with new turbine technologies and solutions. For the investors of these technologies, how to determine the location of wind turbines for such investments is a challenging and critical problem. Wind maps of the country are a useful resource to determine high potential locations. However, such maps often present an overview to provide the general picture, and there is a need for a more detailed analysis, specifically on the potential plant area. In this paper, we investigate the use of a recent regional wind power forecast method to determine the wind power potential. By applying the RegionalSHWIP on a potential plant area, investors can obtain the preliminary power prediction, hence the wind potential of the area, without any financial cost recurring for measurements and with negligible manhour for computation. The wind resource assessments of the RegionalSHWIP have been analyzed in comparison to the wind maps of four provinces from different regions of Turkey. In all of these test provinces, it has been observed that the model produces results compatible with the values in the wind potential atlas. In

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