Optimal choice of wind turbine generator based on Monte-Carlo method

Wind power generation of wind farm has relation to wind energy resources, wind generation unit parameter and its crew, etc. The goal of optimizing the design for wind turbine generator in wind farm should be to utilize wind energy as efficiently as possible and to reduce production cost of wind power generation. Therefore, the paper investigates optimal choice of wind generation unit type matching wind farm site, which takes wind power generation capacity factor and generation cost as optimization target. Probabilistic method used to evaluate the economic indices of wind turbine generators, such as wind power generation and capacity factor, is more reasonable due to wind energy randomness and component failure uncertainty. Results obtained from several case studies are presented and discussed.