Estimation of wind power potential using weibull distribution

Energy Sources

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 809-822

  Genc, Asir ^a   Erisoglu, Murat ^a   Pekgor, Ahmet ^a   Oturanc, Galip ^a   Hepbasli, Arif ^b,c   Ulgen, Koray ^b  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Least squares; Maximum likelihood; Method of moments; Weibull distribution; Weibull parameters; Wind data; Wind energy systems; Wind power

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

SPEED DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND DATA; WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 20344402055     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310490450647     Document Type: Article

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