Title :
A novel approach to estimate load factor of variable-speed wind turbines
Author :
Li, D.D. ; Chen, C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
fDate :
5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper proposes an approach to estimate the load factor for variable-speed wind turbines, which is an index of high interest for economic evaluation of the wind power generation systems. The proposed method is based on the statistical discipline of the wind resource and short-time performance of wind turbines. Calculation results are given for a case study.
Keywords :
power generation economics; statistics; wind power; wind power plants; wind turbines; economic evaluation; load factor estimation; variable-speed wind turbine; wind power generation system; wind resource; Distributed computing; Lagrangian functions; Load flow; Monte Carlo methods; Power system analysis computing; Probability; Random variables; Wind energy; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Load factor; spectral analysis; statistics; wind energy;
Journal_Title :
Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPWRS.2004.841154
