Wind resource assessment in Australia – a planner`s guide

CSIRO

2003

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This guide seeks to give a background to the many aspects of wind resource assessment for the utilisation of wind energy. While the wind resource is the fundamental input to any consideration of a wind farm prospect, it is only one of the many factors which must be considered in siting and constructing the wind farm. The quantification of wind farm energy yields, especially over the projected lifetime of the wind farm remains an exercise based on precision on-site measurements, using quality, well-calibrated instruments. Particular attention must be paid to converting these, usually short-term measurements, into lifetime average estimates, using quality controlled long-term data sets. The following sections provide a guide to the many steps in this process, from the fundamental wind resource to the precise calculations necessary to determine long-term output of a wind farm. [Introduction, excerpt]

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