Assessing a Country´s Wind Resource Potential

Author

Sharma, Chandrabhan

Author_Institution

Trinidad & Tobago Electr. Comm.

fYear

2006

fDate

15-18 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The author has developed a software based wind resource assessment (WRA) application for wind data analysis using hourly wind speed data sets in Microsoft Excel format. Features of the software are: an exact quantification and characterization of the energy supply of the wind for three relevant time scales. These can be used to predict wind speed and energy if the models´ limitations are understood. In this paper, we describe how we developed and used the software and perform a case study of three sites in Trinidad and Tobago using 11-year data sets obtained at 10 m

Keywords

power engineering computing; wind power; Microsoft Excel format; Trinidad and Tobago; energy supply characterization; energy supply quantification; hourly wind speed data; wind data analysis; wind resource assessment; Application software; Data analysis; Density functional theory; MATLAB; Performance analysis; Random variables; Spreadsheet programs; Wind energy; Wind speed; Wind turbines; Energy; Wind Resource Assessment; Wind Speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transmission & Distribution Conference and Exposition: Latin America, 2006. TDC '06. IEEE/PES

Conference_Location

Caracas

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0287-5

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0288-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TDCLA.2006.311573

Filename

4104504