Market suitability and performance tradeoffs offered by commercialwind turbines across differingwind regimes

Energies

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Chowdhury, Souma ^a   Mehmani, Ali ^b   Zhang, Jie ^c   Messac, Achille ^d  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^d School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; Cost of energy; Turbine selection; Wind farm layout optimization; Wind map

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ONSHORE WIND FARMS;

CAPACITY FACTORS; COST OF ENERGIES; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFF; POWER TURBINES; TRADE-OFF CURVES; WIND FARM LAYOUT OPTIMIZATIONS; WIND RESOURCES;

TURBINES;

EID: 84968845865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en9050352     Document Type: Article

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