Assessment of wind energy potential using topographical and meteorological data of a site in Central India (Bhopal)

International Journal of Sustainable Energy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 131-142

  Ganesan, Subramanyam ^a   Ahmed, Siraj ^a  

^a MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Orography; Regional wind climate; Roughness and wind power density; Weibull distribution; Wind atlas

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBINES; VECTORS;

OROGRAPHY; REGIONAL WIND CLIMATE; ROUGHNESS AND WIND POWER DENSITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND ATLAS;

WIND POWER;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OROGRAPHY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 50349094099     PISSN: 14786451     EISSN: 1478646X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14786450802316586     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Ahmed, S., Ganesan, S. and Ahmed, S. (2006) Wind resource assessment: case study of a site in Bhopal. Proceedings of poster presentation of world wind energy conference cum exhibition-2006 New Delhi
2. Anonymous (2007) Global wind energy markets continue to boom - 2006 another record year, Global Wind Energy Council, Belgium
3. Bowden, G. I. et al. (1983) The Weibull distribution function and wind power statistics. International Journal of Wind Engineering, 7:2, pp. 85-98.
4. Dovan, J. C. and Verlwlek, M. G. (1978) A note on the vertical extrapolation formulas for Weibull velocity distribution parameters. Journal Applied Meteorology, 17, pp. 410-412.
5. Justus, C. G. et al. (1978) Methods for estimating wind speed frequency distributions. Journal Applied Meteorology, 17, pp. 330-353.
6. Mani, A. and Rangarajan, S. (1997) Wind energy resources survey in India-IV, Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources, Allied Publishers Ltd, New Delhi
7. Mortensen, N. G. and Peterson, E. L. (1997) Wind energy and atmospheric physics. European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition Dublin, Ireland
8. Mortensen, N. G. et al. (2004) Wind atlas analysis and application programme (WAsP), Riso National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
9. World Meteorological Organization (1981) Meteorological aspects of the utilization of wind as an energy source, p. 181. WMO, Geneva
10. World Watch Institute 2006 Update Renewable Energy Status Report, p. 20036. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC