1.0 Introduction he aim of IEA Wind Task 32 is to address the very fast development of wind lidar technologies and their applicability for more accurate measurement of wind characteristics relevant to reliable deployment of wind energy power systems. The purpose is to bring together actors in the research community and industry to create synergies in the many R&D activities already on-going in ...

in this research paper, a 10 minute period measured wind speed data at 10 m, 30 m, and 40 m heights are presented for one of the major provinces of iran. four stations in khuzestan- abadan, hosseyneh, mahshahr, and shushtar- are analyzed to determine the potential of wind power generation in this province. from the primary evaluation and by determining mean wind speed and also the weibull funct...

— This article presents the basic concepts of wind energy and deals with the physics and mechanics of operation. It describes the conversion of wind energy into rotation of turbine, and the critical parameters governing the efficiency of this conversion. After that it presents an overview of various parts and components of windmills. The connection to the electrical grid, the world status of wi...

1 University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1; {a22naray, ponnu}@uwaterloo.ca 6 2 University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts, USA 01854; [email protected] 7 * Correspondence: [email protected], Tel.: +1-519-888-4567 x31450 8 Abstract: Investments in wind and solar power are driven by the aim to maximize the utilization of 9 renewable energy (RE). This results in an increas...

Wind energy systems are being closely studied be c a u s e of its benefits as an environmentally friendly and renewable source of energy. Because of its unpredictable availability, power management concepts are essential to extract as much power as possible from the wind when it becomes available. The purpose of this thesis is to presents a new adaptive control algorithm for maximum power point...

Lightning incidence analysis is required for the design of adequate lightning protection systems for wind turbines. We present a method to estimate the number of upward flashes for multiple wind turbines located in mountainous areas. The proposed method is applied to the case of the Mont Crosin wind turbine park located in the Jura mountains in the Northwestern part of Switzerland. A significan...

Wind parks and their impact on electrical power systems have become an important area for analysis over the last decade. Particularly, the influence of wind turbines on power quality of electrical power systems is today a subject of study for several electrical and wind turbine manufacturing companies, standards committees, and universities. In this paper, a new probabilistic model for analyzin...

In the recent years, many wind turbine generation systems (WTGS) have been installed in many countries. However the electric power obtained from wind generators is not constant due to wind speed variations. The generated electric power and the loss in WTGS change corresponding to the wind speed variations, and consequently the efficiency and the capacity factor of the system also change. In thi...