New details on wind power climatology. [USA]
Conference
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OSTI ID:7221132
The national isodyn map of average available wind power was used to help select fifteen stations, representative of interesting wind power climatic regimes, for detailed analyses of ten-year records of hourly wind speed observations. These long time series have been corrected for observer bias, homogenized to constant anemometer exposures, and extrapolated to select heights 10m, 20m, and 50m above flat terrain. Various analyses have shown that correction generally gave results in excellent agreement with the national isodyn contours, turbine cut-in and cut-off speed selections were not critical to power recovery efficiency, turbine rated speed needs to be tailored to the regional wind climate, stand-alone systems require huge storage filters to smooth annual and inter-annual variations in supply, and modest storage will effectively filter periodicities of a few days in both supply and demand.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7221132
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-77-0696C; CONF-770539-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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