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...

With a coastline of more than 3000km and its location in the monsoonal climate zone, Vietnam is expected to have good potential for wind energy development. During the last years, several preliminary studies on assessment of wind energy potential in Vietnam have been carried out. Policies for...

In order to clarify variability in wind energy over a long-term period of 30 years, an investigation was carried out on Jeju Island in South Korea, which has complex terrain. The selected areas for this study were Jeju, Seogwipo and Seongsan, which have wind data for 30 years from 1978 to 2007....

Wind data was measured at a number of sites on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico over a 24 calendar-month time frame. The wind data gathered at four sites is envisaged to shed new light on the wind characteristics of this tropical island with an emphasis on the climate’s suitability for wind...

The analysis of recently collected wind data at five sites in Saudi Arabia namely, Dhulum, Arar, Yanbu, Gassim and Dhahran is presented. The five sites represent different geographically and climatologically conditions. The data collected over a period spanned between 1995 and 2002 with...

The Sotavento wind farm is an experimental wind farm which has different types of wind turbines. It is located in an area whose topography is moderately complex, and where wake effects can be significant. One of the objectives of Sotavento wind farm is to compare the performances of the...

This article describes how in this digital age, storage devices have been permitting the design of systems with the capacity to handle massive amount of diverse types of data. Real-time storage devices have been using complex architectures to accommodate the exponential increase of generated...

Weather data bases are important in optimizing a range of economic activities, such as maritime traffic. In this paper, a statistical analysis of data has been carried out, which includes the interpretation of the results with an emphasis on the analysis of consequences for local population. The...

Abstract The major drawback of wind energy relies in its variability in time, which necessitates specific strategies to be settled. One such strategy can be the coordination of wind power production with a co-located power generation of dispatchable energy source (DES), e.g., thermal power...