A new formulation for rotor equivalent wind speed for wind resource assessment and wind power forecasting

• Published in: Wind energy (Chichester, England) Vol. 19; no. 8; pp. 1439 - 1452
• Main Authors: Choukulkar, Aditya, Pichugina, Yelena, Clack, Christopher T. M., Calhoun, Ronald, Banta, Robert, Brewer, Alan, Hardesty, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bognor Regis Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2016; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Doppler lidar; Energy efficiency; Energy industry; Energy sources; equivalent wind speed; Field tests; Fluctuations; Forecasting; Mathematical analysis; New technology; Renewable resources; Turbines; Turbulence; Variation; wind energy; Wind farms; Wind power; wind power calculation; wind power forecasting; Wind power generation; wind resource assessment; Wind shear; Wind speed; Wind turbines

The spurt of growth in the wind energy industry has led to the development of many new technologies to study this energy resource and improve the efficiency of wind turbines. One of the key factors in wind farm characterization is the prediction of power output of the wind farm that is a strong func...