A data mining approach: Analyzing wind speed and insolation period data in Turkey for installations of wind and solar power plants

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 185-197

  Colak, Ilhami ^a   Sagiroglu, Seref ^a   Demirtas, Mehmet ^a   Yesilbudak, Mehmet ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NEVSEHIR HACI BEKTAS VELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data mining; Feasibility and numerical analyses; Insolation period; Similarity; Wind and solar power plant installations; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; ANNUAL AVERAGE WIND SPEED; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EUCLIDEAN; FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MANHATTANS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MINKOWSKI DISTANCE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ALGORITHM; PLANT INSTALLATIONS; SIMILARITY; STOCHASTIC NATURE; WIND AND SOLAR POWER; WIND SPEED;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84867408836     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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