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Methods to extrapolate wind resource to the turbine hub height based on power law: A 1-h wind speed vs. Weibull distribution extrapolation comparison

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  • Gualtieri, Giovanni
  • Secci, Sauro

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An accurate wind shear model is crucial to extrapolate the observed wind resource from the available lower heights to the steadily increasing hub height of modern wind turbines. Among power law (PL) and logarithmic law (LogL), i.e., the two most commonly used analytical models, the former was found to give a better representation of wind speed profiles and thus set as the reference model addressed by the present study. As well as commonly used for vertical extrapolation of 1-h wind speed records, the PL wind profile was proved to be consistent with the Weibull wind speed distribution. As a matter of fact, Justus and Mikhail suggested being more useful to deal with the full range of wind speed, such as required to specify the wind speed probability distribution, rather than using the “instantaneous” records. Therefore, in this work a comparison is proposed between these two PL–based extrapolation approaches to the turbine hub height, not only in terms of wind resource and energy yield computation skill, but also of simplicity and usefulness: (i) extrapolation of 1-h wind speed records, and (ii) extrapolation of the Weibull distribution. In particular, the models of Smedman–Högström and Högström (SH) and Panofsky and Dutton (PD) were used to approach (i), while those from Justus and Mikhail (JM) and Spera and Richards (SR) to approach (ii). In addition, a comparison of models in estimating wind shear coefficient was carried out.

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  • Gualtieri, Giovanni & Secci, Sauro, 2012. "Methods to extrapolate wind resource to the turbine hub height based on power law: A 1-h wind speed vs. Weibull distribution extrapolation comparison," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 183-200.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:43:y:2012:i:c:p:183-200
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.12.022
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