Galician climatic change effect on wind power production

Author

Orosa, J.A. ; García-Bustelo, E.J. ; Pérez, J.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Energy, Univ. of Coruna, Coruna

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 March 2009

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

184

Abstract

Galician climate conditions present the right ambience for wind turbines power generators during winter and spring seasons even though its climate change may affect wind velocity and moist air density by reducing the energy conversion. Planet Global Heating was analyzed for Galician climate showing a rise in the average temperature in each season. In this paper twenty-four wind turbines were analyzed in a typical year to get a model that relates weather to power conversion. Once done that, the effect of the climate change was evaluated in Galician wind farms showing a 10% fall during spring and summer season. Therefore, future researches about new technologies more suitable for that work conditions like low wind turbines must be done.

Keywords

climate mitigation; data analysis; wind turbines; climate change; energy conversion; moist air density; wind power production; wind turbines power generators; wind velocity; Energy conversion; Planets; Power generation; Production; Springs; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Wind power generation; Wind speed; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives, 2009. POWERENG '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4611-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2291-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/POWERENG.2009.4915156

Filename

4915156