Wind Farm Wakes from SAR and Doppler Radar
We retrieve atmospheric wake characteristics at the wind farm Westermost Rough from Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. For the first time, co-located reference measurements of the full flow field around the wind farm are available from ...
Tobias Ahsbahs +3 more
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Optimization Analysis of Permanent-Magnet Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Elbow Shape Nacelle
[Introduction] In view of the irregular geometric shape, complex load and heavy weight of the nacelle of a permanent magnet direct drive wind turbine, it is necessary to optimize the analysis and design.
Fangshu CHEN, Xuebing YANG, Feng SHI
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Primary Frequency Regulation Requirement of South Africa Grid Code and its DIgSILENT Simulation [PDF]
Wind power is a kind of renewable energy with unexpected and unfriendly characteristics, so different countries have their own grid code to restrain wind power generation to an acceptable performance.
Chu Jingchun +3 more
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What to expect from a greater geographic dispersion of wind farms? - A risk portfolio approach [PDF]
The UK, like many other industrialised countries, is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. To achieve this goal the UK is increasingly turning towards wind power as a source of emissions free energy.
Ben Drake +9 more
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Combined hydro-wind generation bids in a pool-based electricity market [PDF]
Present regulatory trends are promoting the irect participation of wind energy in electricity markets. The final result of these markets sets the production scheduling for the operation time, including a power commitment from the wind generators. However,
Angarita Márquez, Jorge Luis +2 more
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Wind turbine condition assessment through power curve copula modeling [PDF]
Power curves constructed from wind speed and active power output measurements provide an established method of analyzing wind turbine performance. In this paper it is proposed that operational data from wind turbines are used to estimate bivariate ...
Galloway, Stuart +2 more
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Savings from Wind Power [PDF]
Currently in Great Britain, estimates of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings that arise from wind power replacing other types of generation are approximated as the average emissions of electricity generation; however, this value is known to be ...
Chick, J. P. +2 more
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Power Quality Enhancement in Electricity Grids with Wind Energy Using Multicell Converters and Energy Storage [PDF]
In recent years, the wind power industry is experiencing a rapid growth and more wind farms with larger size wind turbines are being connected to the power system.
Allali, Ahmed +5 more
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Power quality issues of 3MW direct-driven PMSG wind turbine [PDF]
This paper presents power quality issues of a grid connected wind generation system with a MW-class direct-driven permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG).
Ahmed, IA, Taylor, GA, Zobaa, AF
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Short-term wind prediction using an ensemble of particle swarm optimised FIR filters [PDF]
Due to the large and increasing penetration of wind power around the world, accurate power production forecasts are required to manage power systems and wind power plants.
Dowell, Jethro, Weiss, Stephan
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