Optimization of wind farm design taking into account uncertainty in input parameters

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition, EWEC 2013

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1808-1817

  Afanasyeva, Svetlana ^a   Saari, Jussi ^a   Kukkonen, Saku ^a   Partanen, Jarmo ^a   Pyrhönen, Olli ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Differential Evolution; Monte Carlo simulation; Siting; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANNUAL ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; SITING; THE NET PRESENT VALUE (NPV); WIND FARM; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84903441982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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