Wind is one of the important natural phenomena in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the world. Although several studies have been conducted using the wind speed and direction to provide wind rose in each area, only a few of them investigated the possibility of wind speed at different return periods. Analysis of the maximum wind speed at different return periods, in a variety of projects such as ...

With population growth and progress of human society and human life needs to energy sources and also environmental pollution caused by fossil fuels, many countries are looking to use clean energy sources. Wind energy is one of them. In this paper was to evaluate the potential of wind energy in Yazd city. After review and analysis of meteorological data from 2011 to 2014 by software, the annual ...

Introduction: Energy as a contributor to human well-being plays an important role in the sustainable development of human societies. The growing demand for energy, higher standards of living, global warming, and decreasing fossil fuel resources have focused the global attention on renewable energies (Kaya and Kahraman, 2010). Owing to the rapid development of wind energy extraction technologies...

In recent years, due to environmental concerns together with rising costs of the fossil fuels, the wind energy usage in electricity generation of various countries has experienced a growing trend. Owing to inherent characteristics of wind turbines output generation, i.e. uncertainty in their output level as well as being undispatchable, the rapid growth of installed wind farms, however, has cau...

Nowadays, increasing the renewable energy applications in power system, especially wind power, has caused higher imbalance probability between generation and demand. Therefore, an accurate estimation of wind farm reserve requirements and the reserve cost reduction in power systems with high wind power penetration is very important. In this paper, the reserve requirements of a wind farm are esti...