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WIND ENERGY >
Wind Potential Assessment Studies
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Wind potential
measurements are indispensable for the planning and
successful operation of good wind farm projects. AEOLIKI
Ltd, having compiled the Cyprus Wind Atlas © has
both the experience and knowledge required for efficient
selection of the measurement location, installation,
maintenance and analysis of wind data.
The wind measurements are of high quality, with guaranteed
availability.Guyed tubular towers of height between
30-60m are deployed.
A proper wind potential assessment needs a 12-month
measurement period. To meet the often urgent requirements
for early estimation of the annual wind distribution
in a prospect wind farm site, long-term reference measurements
from existing meteorological wind stations are exploited
through Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP) algorithms developed
and verified by AEOLIKI Ltd. Thus, reasonably reliable
estimates (including uncertainty levels) may be reached
after an initial 2-3 month measurement period.
The same technique may be also followed for micro-siting
purposes within the area of a potential wind farm: one
mast is used as a reference (from the initial site assessment
phase) and additional masts may be deployed for short
periods on neighboring locations to establish correlation
matrices and extrapolate the short term results to an
annual wind speed-direction distribution.
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The wind
assessment report provides comprehensive graphs and
tables (monthly wind patterns, wind-rose diagrams per
month, gust information, overall and sector-wise Weibull
parameters, turbulence characterization, AEP calculations,
capacity factors, power density). |
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The wind stations are
built around well-proven data –logging systems
offering remote control, programming and data download
through GSM modem. Wind- flow modeling tools are also
used for wind potential assessment studies supplementing
wind measurements. Notwithstanding the continuous improvement
of the performance of state-of-the-art models, the use
of numerical wind flow tools in complex terrain are
mainly used to identify high and low-wind spots of a
prospect wind farm site using the available wind data
as (scaling) input. |
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