Study of effects of weather & location on wind turbine failure rates

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2010, EWEC 2010

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 4727-4735

  Tavner, P J ^a   Gindele, R ^a   Faulstich, S ^b   Hahn, B ^b   Whittle, M W G ^a   Greenwood, D M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FRAUNHOFER IWES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Failure; Offshore; Onshore; Reliability; Weather; Wind speed; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

CROSS CORRELATIONS; DENMARK; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FAILURE RATE; OFFSHORE; ONSHORE; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; PAYBACK PERIODS; RELIABILITY CHARACTERISTICS; ROOT CAUSE; WEATHER; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEATHER DATA; WIND SPEED;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; EXHIBITIONS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; MAINTENANCE; POPULATION STATISTICS; RELIABILITY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84870039220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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