Novel method for estimating the CF of variable speed wind turbines

2009 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Albadi, M H ^a   El Saadany, E F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; Turbine site matching; Weibull distribution function; Wind power

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY FACTOR; CAPACITY FACTORS; MEASURED DATA; NOVEL METHODS; POWER PERFORMANCE; VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINES; WIND SPEED;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; SPEED; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77649298831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2009.5275966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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