A statistical analysis of Cape Town wind profile

The increased integration of wind power into electric power systems presents new challenges for effective planning and operation of these systems. The Weibull distribution is a widely used distribution, especially for modelling the random variable of wind speed. In this respect, the authors present a comparative analysis of a number of methods used for estimating Weibull parameters. Results for a real-world database are presented in a case study format. The techniques require historical wind speed data, collected over a particular time interval, to establish the parameters of wind speed distribution for a specific location, namely Cape Town, South Africa.