General statistics of geographically dispersed wind power

Wind Energy

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 773-784

  Hasche, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

duration curve; fluctuation; kurtosis; skewness; smoothing; standard deviation; variability; Wind power

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; STATISTICS;

DURATION CURVE; FLUCTUATION; KURTOSIS; SKEWNESS; SMOOTHING; STANDARD DEVIATION; VARIABILITY;

WIND POWER;

POWER GENERATION; SKEWNESS; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPSCALING; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

EID: 78649655821     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.397     Document Type: Article

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