Turkey is one of the developing countries. The production of electricity in Turkey is basically focused on hydro-power and thermal-power. On the other hand, measurements show that Turkey has a reasonable wind potential but this potential was not being used for many years due to government...

The importance of renewable energy increases in activities relating to new forms of managing and operating electrical power: especially wind power. Wind generation is increasing its share in the electricity generation portfolios of many countries. Wind power production in Spain has doubled over...

The wind resource is a crucial step in planning a wind energy project and detailed knowledge of the wind characteristic at a site is needed to estimate the performance of a wind energy project. In this paper, with the help of 2-parameter Weibull distribution, the assessment of wind energy...

Weibull distribution has been one of the most widely used distribution to determine potential of wind energy. Many different numerical methods can be used to estimate the parameters of the Weibull distribution. The L-moment method (L-MoM), which has not been used extensively in the previous...

The Weibull probability density function (PDF) has mostly been used to fit wind speed distributions for wind energy applications. The goodness of fit of the results depends on the estimation method that was used and the wind type of the analyzed area. In this paper, a study on a particular area...

A procedure for cyclonic microzonation of coastal regions with the help of the cyclone track records is outlined using a sound method of statistical forecast and finding wind speed at a site with the help of standard wind field model. The procedure can be adopted for regions where directly...

Wind energy production is very sensitive to instantaneous wind speed fluctuations. Thus rapid variation of wind speed due to changes in the local meteorological conditions can lead to electrical power variations of the order of the nominal power output. The high variability of this renewable...

Accurate modelling is crucial in designing an optimum system. Wind speed distribution of selected site, hub height and power output curve of chosen wind turbine, are the main factors which influence the performance of wind turbines, and therefore, these must be properly accounted for during...

Weibull distribution is widely suggested for modeling the behavior of offshore wind speeds. However, it has been often proved to be inadequate, while its indiscriminate use is not justified. Thus, in order to minimize estimation errors in offshore wind energy, it is necessary to select the most...

According to wind-climatic requirement of wind farms wind speed should exceed the so called cut-in speed. If this inequality is realized then regarding the wind-climatic features of Hungary the following conditions may occur: the wind turbine is operating with high probability, energy is...