Assessing wind farm reliability using weather dependent failure rates

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 524, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wilson, G ^a   McMillan, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY; SPEED; TORQUE; WIND POWER;

COMPONENT FAILURES; CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE; COST OF OPERATIONS; DEPENDENT FAILURE; LARGE-SCALE WIND FARMS; RELIABILITY DATA; SITE ASSESSMENT; WINTER MONTHS;

WIND;

EID: 84903689343     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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