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T1 Wind speed description and power density in northern Spain
A1 Herrero Novoa, Cristina
A1 Pérez Bartolomé, Isidro Alberto
A1 Sánchez Gómez, María Luisa
A1 García Pérez, María Ángeles
A1 Pardo Gómez, Nuria
A1 Fernández Duque, Beatriz
AB Wind resources are increasingly being investigated as a clean alternative for generating energy. This paper analyses the daily wind speed recorded at 46 automatic weather stations located in Navarre, northern Spain, in 2005e2015. Key points are the surface density of stations and the range of time that ensure a faithful depiction of wind speed together with surface calculations from image analysis and correlation with height. Different statistics were used. Median wind speed at 10 m was low, about 3.3 m s 1 and its interquartile range was narrow, about 2.3 m s 1. Nearly half the surface shows a median wind speed above 3.0 m s 1. The method of moments was employed to calculate the parameters of the Weibull distribution. Around half of the surface presented a shape parameter above 2.25 and the scaleparameter was above 4 m s 1 for nearly 41% of the region. Although wind resources are not suitable for wind turbine applications in most of the region, since the wind speed is low in low-lying areas, about 12% of the region is suitable for stand-alone applications and, moreover, a substantial part of the region, around 23%, presents satisfactory wind resources for the installation of wind turbines.
PB ELSEVIER
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/32884
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/32884
LA eng
NO Energy 138 2017 967-976
DS UVaDOC
RD 25-abr-2024