Air current free energy in the built environment

K.A. Hyams , in Metropolitan Sustainability, 2012

xx.6 Conclusions and future trends

Wind energy technologies will very probable accept an important role to play in the future as part of a diverse portfolio of renewable energy resources supplying cities. Wind turbines produce no emissions during operation and large-scale wind free energy is already economically competitive with many conventional sources of power. While wind turbines do produce emissions beyond their life cycles, past displacing grid-sourced power generated from fossil fuels, productive systems can have carbon payback periods of a year or less.

As discussed in this affiliate, wind energy is dependent on strong and consistent winds, which can exist more problematic inside cities. Buildings and other obstructions distort wind flows and create turbulence, which tin reduce turbine free energy output and crusade materials fatigue. Poorly sited projects volition not be cost-constructive and will have long energy and carbon payback periods. As a result, it is important that turbines be sited in open areas or well above nearby structures to increase their access to high-quality wind.

While large-scale wind turbines are a mature engineering science that can be sited within or close to cities where good current of air resources are identified, pocket-sized current of air turbines sited on or about buildings are however emerging. Modest wind turbines are currently more plush and less efficient than large ones and volition require farther evolution if they are to make a noticeable contribution to urban free energy supply. Equally important are industry standards and certification processes, too as well-trained projection evolution and installation professionals. Ultimately, the success of wind energy's contributions to urban sustainability will be measured non by the number of installations achieved, simply past the amount of energy produced.

A major challenge for urban small wind will continue to exist proper siting and toll control. Due to their smaller scale and relative cost, long-term wind speed monitoring can exist impractical for these projects. As a result, small wind companies are developing analytic software that utilizes regional wind speed data and detailed data about local obstructions to appraise the air current resource of a given site without all-encompassing data collection (Wind Products Inc., 2010). At this time, nevertheless, it is unclear how effective these tools will be for assessing urban air current resources.

Looking to the future, as wind energy and other forms of variable renewable generation increase, flexible energy resource will likely be needed to go along supply and demand on the grid in balance. Free energy storage technologies and demand response volition exist amid the options for providing this flexibility in a depression-carbon energy system. Batteries, flywheels, compressed air and other forms of energy storage may exist utilized to store renewable power when it is in excess for future use when demand would otherwise exceed supply. However, the viability of energy storage as a grid balancing solution will depend on the price of these technologies equally compared to bachelor alternatives (Denholm et al., 2010). 'Smart grid' investments in advanced meters and appliances capable of sending and receiving signals to control electricity demand in real time are ane such alternative. Indeed, every bit renewable supplies that fluctuate with changes in air current or solar availability go ubiquitous, it will become more important that the electric grid be an intelligent and dynamic energy arrangement, capable of utilizing a number of different options and techniques for controlling supply and need.

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Condition of current of air free energy in India

Due south.C. Bhatia , in Advanced Renewable Energy Systems, 2014

nine.4 Estimated wind power resource

The Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET) published the Indian Current of air Atlas in 2010, showing large areas with annual average wind ability densities of more than 200  Watts/ktwo at 50   metres above ground level (MAGL). This is considered to be a benchmark benchmark for establishing wind farms in India as per CWET and the MNRE. The potential sites have been classified according to annual mean wind power density ranging from 200   W/thoutwo to 500   W/g2.

About of the potential assessed sites accept an annual hateful current of air power density in the range of 200–250   Westward/m2 at 50 MAGL. The Air current Atlas has projected Indian wind power installable potential (proper noun plate rating) as 49,130   MW at 2   per cent state availability. This is seen as a conservative estimate of wind power potential in India (Table nine.vi).

Table 9.six. State-wise generation and installed capacity (upwards to 31st March 2010).

Country Cumulative generation (MU) Cumulative installed capacity (MW)
Andhra Pradesh 1451 138.4
Gujarat 8016 1934.6
Karnataka 9991 1517.2
Madhya Pradesh 554 230.eight
Maharashtra 11,790 2108.1
Rajasthan 3938 1095.half-dozen
Tamil Nadu 41,100 5073.1
Kerala 110 28
Full 76,950 12,125.8

With the comeback in technology and increase in the hub elevation of the wind turbine information technology has get possible to generate more electricity than assumed in earlier estimates. Based on the resource assessment carried out past C-Wet, wind speeds in India are in the low to moderate range except in few pockets like littoral southern Tamil Nadu and the Rann of Katch (Gujarat). Farther India'southward as yet unassessed offshore wind potential was not included in the C-WET report.

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Wind Energy

F. Van Hulle , in Comprehensive Renewable Energy, 2012

2.12.1.two Wind Energy Engineering science-Specific Bug

The characteristics of wind energy applied science and the constraints arising from the site-specific external weather lead to specific bug related to testing and certification. Some important ones are highlighted here:

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Heavy external design weather: Air current turbine standards and certification accept to take account of the fact that wind power plants need to operate unattended and remain within their blueprint limits for 20 years during a broad range of blueprint conditions, including extreme events. Moreover, these conditions are very site specific.

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Brusk product cycle – fast developing product size: The loftier rate of introduction of new and larger wind turbine types puts pressure on the speed of certification. The modular approach to certification is a practical solution to that.

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Wind turbine siting: Because of the closeness of current of air turbines to domicile and other chance-sensitive areas, sufficiently rigorous safety approach has to be followed in safety requirements to limit the risk below a prepare level, but at the same time being rational and workable.

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Large wind turbine sizes: The average wind turbine sizes have been increased considerably, and are such that they involve astringent constraints on locations of testing and on the size of testing facilities for blades and other major components (e.g., offshore structures). The large sizes also pose challenges for calibration methods in mechanical load measurements.

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Wind variability: Almost of the wind turbine testing involves measurement of the wind conditions. Specific testing methods for accurate, traceable measurements are not straightforward considering of the spatial and temporal variability of the wind vector. Increasing current of air turbine sizes brand this issue more complex.

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Workers risk: Being large structures involving working at great heights in environments with electrical and mechanical risks poses specific requirements for personnel and labor rubber.

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New electrical functionalities: With increasing penetration of wind ability in power systems, new network requirements and wind power constitute functionalities are adult bringing near the need for new respective test and verification procedures. Moreover, certain aspects such equally electrical characteristics at air current farm level cannot be tested physically, bringing the need for combination of physical testing and modeling.

Many of the above issues are in principle very challenging; all the same, several accept been solved satisfactorily. This chapter intends to demonstrate how these bug have been addressed with the development and implementation of proper standards, resulting in a comprehensive arroyo in the sector to deal with quality and rubber.

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Wind ability technology

Subhadeep Bhattacharjee , in Sustainable Fuel Technologies Handbook, 2021

five.7 Environmental impact and public perception

Despite the fact that wind energy technology is highly popular, in that location are certain issues with regard to the environment and public perception [two].

Racket pollution: Noise is agonizing for some people. There are two chief sources of noise from a wind turbine — mechanical noise from the gearbox and generator, and aerodynamic noise from the rotor blades. Aerodynamic noise is the major component of the total noise and resembles the swish sound created by a helicopter. At 400   m downwind, the turbine noise can be every bit high as 60   dB, which is comparable to the noise level from an air conditioner or dishwasher. Even so, the racket from wind farms is far below the threshold of pain, which is 140   dB. Furthermore dissonance has been reduced substantially with the advent of new and improved designed wind turbines.

Aesthetics: Some people perceive wind farms as ugly for the landscape, forcing developers to install them in remote areas, including offshore as shown in Fig. 5.38.

Figure 5.38. Offshore wind subcontract.

Bird collisions: Some instances of birds colliding with the rotating blades are reported. However, the problem can be reduced to a great extent with newer turbines existence designed with lower blade speeds.

Ice aggregating: In common cold weather regions, ice can accrue on the blades. When the turbine spins, the ice can be dislodged and such projectiles endanger the public and structures in the vicinity. In some models the blades are heated to avoid the ice from accumulating on them.

Sunlight flicker: Some blades reflect sunlight. When these blades move, the reflections of the sunlight on the blades flicker which creates an badgerer for some people.

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Micromechanical modelling of wind turbine blade materials

L. MishnaevskyJr., in Advances in Air current Turbine Blade Blueprint and Materials, 2013

9.1 Introduction

The efficiency and practical usability of wind free energy technology depends on the reliability and the longevity of current of air turbines ( Brøndsted et al, 2005). The repair and the maintenance of air current turbines are mostly expensive and time-consuming. Simply how can ane predict, and increase, the lifetime of wind turbine blades? These structures are bailiwick to complex, multiaxial, circadian loading and their failure processes are controlled by microscale degradation of the materials. Experimental testing of the many dissimilar materials under a variety of service weather condition would crave huge effort and expense. The solution to this trouble lies in the application of numerical experiments in which various materials which are used, or have the potential to be used, for wind energy applications are tested in computational models. The computational models should include realistic microscale structures of the materials, realistic deformation and damage mechanisms and realistic loading atmospheric condition. This approach, in which the mechanical behaviour and the strength of materials is studied every bit a office of their microstructures on the basis of numerical models, is realized in the framework of computational micro- and meso-mechanics of materials (Mishnaevsky Jr., 2007; Schmauder and Mishnaevsky Jr., 2008).

In this affiliate, an overview is given of the methods and approaches of micromechanics of materials that can be used for the modelling of air current turbine blade composites. Various materials modelling methods and the results of several simulations are discussed.

The computational modelling of wind turbine bract materials is carried out at several scale levels: macrolevel (or structural scale level, concentrating on adhesive joints, pare, spider web, etc), mesolevel (or laminate calibration level) and microlevel (fibre–matrix scale level). In some cases, nanoreinforcement is introduced into the fibre sizing or matrix, thus requiring an boosted level of analysis, nanolevel. Currently, the computational analysis of wind turbine blades at the structural level seldom includes the local properties and complex structures of composites; rather, these materials are considered every bit homogeneous. Thus, this management lies, in fact, exterior of the micro-mechanical (microstructure-based modelling) field.

At the mesolevel, the laminates and sandwiches of the blade shells are considered multilayered materials, with laminae (plies) being anisotropic fibre-reinforced composites. Such multilayered structures tin neglect along weak interfaces. Delamination of laminates, debonding between the skin and the core in sandwich structures and failure of adhesive joints are examples of such failure mechanisms. The delamination failure, east.thou. buckling-driven delamination or fatigue delamination, are modelled using fracture mechanics based models. In fracture mechanics, the energy-based and stress-based criteria of scissure formation and growth are used to predict the failure conditions of materials and structures (Sørensen, 2010). Delamination typically represents a mixed-manner fracture process, i.e. fracture under combined shear and tensile local stresses. In order to determine delamination conditions, local stress distribution, energy release charge per unit (i.due east. the energy prodigal during fracture per unit of newly created fracture surface surface area) and other parameters are calculated. In numerical studies, the cohesive zone model is often used, in which the cloth separation due to the cleft growth is described using the traction–separation constabulary, which links the tractions to the separation of the faces of the new surface at the front of the fissure (Sørensen and Kirkegaard, 2006).

At the fibre–matrix level (microlevel), the main damage mechanisms include fibre cracking, neat and void growth in the matrix, and interface debonding. A curt overview of the modelling methods of these processes is given beneath.

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The Cinderella options

M.J. Grubb , in Renewable Energy, 1993

Myth 1 – air current free energy is much likewise costly

The 20th century has seen occasional attempts to modernize current of air free energy technology, but there were no concerted efforts until the mid-1970s, when several regime programmes started to develop very large turbines. Much was learned, merely about projects ran into substantial technical problems and high costs; a detailed assessment of two of the leading contenders in 1983 concluded that the energy would cost much more than from conventional options. 19

A second phase of development, from 1982–85, was dominated by the cosmos of a market place for pocket-sized and medium sized machines in the USA, with a favourable regulatory government combined with generous Federal and Land revenue enhancement incentives which made wind energy in some areas – particularly California – an attractive individual investment even at the then high costs. Installation rates in California rose from 10 MW/yr in 1981 to 400 MW/twelvemonth in 1984, with a cumulative investment by 1986 of about $two 000 million. In this brief period the mean size of commercial units doubled, performance improved dramatically, and costs fell sharply, mostly as a result of applying avant-garde materials and control systems and a improve understanding of wind turbine dynamics and stresses.

The autumn in oil prices and removal of taxation credits so greatly tightened the market place at a time when several large companies had put substantial majuscule into new machines, leading to further cost and price cuts.

In Denmark, 1 of the major manufacturers, air current energy is regarded equally a major economic resource, with 350 MW installed by 1990 feeding an official target of ii 000 MW (to generate 10% of electricity) past 2000. xx In 1988 the UK's Cardinal Electricity Generating Lath (CEGB) startled some observers past stating that at very proficient sites in Uk, modernistic wind turbines could generate electricity more than cheaply than either nuclear or coal stations. 21 Avenues expected to give further substantial improvements have been identified. 22 However, the CEGB and others contended that the resource – at competitive costs – were small and the technology was still unproven.

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Wind Energy

G.South. Stavrakakis , in Comprehensive Renewable Free energy, 2012

2.10.7.1.13 Clipper

Clipper Windpower is a apace growing, company engaged in wind energy technology, turbine manufacturing, and wind project development. Clipper employs over 750 people and manages over 6500  MW of wind resource evolution assets.

The company's current of air turbine model is the 2.v   MW Liberty® ( Effigy 87 ). This is a horizontal-axis, iii-bract, upwind, pitch-regulated, variable-speed machine. Information technology features Clipper'southward own Quantum Drive® distributed bulldoze railroad train, a ii-phase, helical load-splitting gearbox, 4 separate MegaFlux® PM synchronous generators, and optimized controls for variable-speed operation with full power conversion. Low-voltage ride through is also possible, thus enhancing weak grid situations.

Figure 87. Freedom nacelle.

 From Clipper brochure, www.clipperwind.com.

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Vulnerability of Energy to Climate

M.A. Lange , in Climate Vulnerability, 2013

iii.11.ii.two Current of air Energy

Current of air energy utilizes the kinetic energy of moving air through current of air turbines located on country (onshore) or in seawater or freshwater (offshore). Onshore wind energy technologies are proven technologies and are deployed on a big calibration. Although offshore current of air free energy technologies pose significantly larger challenges in their employment, they also take greater potential for continued technical advancement. Electricity generation through air current power is both variable and, to some degree, unpredictable. However, feel and detailed studies from many regions have shown that the integration of wind free energy mostly poses no insurmountable technical barriers (Edenhofer et al. 2011).

Wind power has been the fastest growing course of renewables in Europe. At the end of 2007, it accounted for 52 GW of installed generating chapters, supplying iii.8% of the Eu-27 total electricity consumption. It represents the 2d largest share of renewable electricity in Europe, after hydropower. Ane of the major reasons for the growth in wind power utilization is that it is currently the lowest cost renewable energy source (Figure 2). The development of offshore wind installations has been low in comparison with onshore wind, mainly because the costs are, at present, higher than for onshore wind at good sites. It has been estimated that it would be possible to obtain approximately 1000 TWh yr−ane of onshore current of air at a price of less than 荤0.05 kWh−1, and well-nigh 2500 TWh yr−1 at a toll of less than 荤0.07 kWh−1 for OECD Europe equally a whole. In practise, however, information technology volition non be feasible to develop all of the sites that are suitable for wind power for various reasons (e.g., opposition by the local population). As a consequence of the intermittency of wind, achieving high penetration of wind power would require significant long-altitude power transmission lines, spreading local wind conditions over a continental calibration (PricewaterhouseCoopers et al. 2010).

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Filigree Integration of Air current Energy Systems

H.Thousand. Boulouiha , ... M. Denai , in Clean Free energy for Sustainable Development, 2017

9.1 Introduction

Wind energy is amidst the well-nigh viable renewable free energy resources in the world and its installed chapters is projected to grow substantially in the years ahead. Although wind energy technology has already reached a mature phase of development, at that place are, however, key challenges associated with the control complexity of wind energy–conversion systems (WECSs) for a successful integration into the electric power filigree. The earth's global air current power cumulative capacity has expanded from 3  GW to 370   GW at the cease of 2014 (come across Fig. 9.1). In Europe, 130   GW of both onshore and offshore air current installations are continued to the grid, and 6 countries (Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Romania, and Germany) generate between 10% and 40% of their electricity from current of air [i]. The global wind ability capacity has increased by 50   GW from 2013 to 2014 reaching 365.4   GW.

Effigy nine.one. Globally installed wind power cumulative capacity from 1996 to 2014 [1,2].

Onshore current of air energy is currently an established technology that is however undergoing all-encompassing improvements. Presently, inquiry and evolution is get-go and foremost focused on maximizing the assessment of wind energy and includes offshore applied science, where public opinion surveys show stiff support of new wind farm installations. While its share of the total air current capacity residuum is minor, the offshore current of air production has experienced a net increase in year 2013, with 1.6   GW of new capacity linked to the grid. Offshore current of air power installations accounted for near 14% of the full European union (European Union) wind power installations in 2013, that is, increased by 4% from 2012[1].

The year 2014 brought a novel tape in wind power installations; around 50   GW of capacity were added, bringing the total current of air ability chapters close to 370   GW. The market book for new wind capacity was 40% bigger than in 2013, and significantly bigger than in the previous record yr 2012, when 44.half dozen   GW were installed [iii].

Fig. 9.2 shows the top 10 countries with a total generation of 44.8   GW from new current of air power plants, half of them setting new national records [3]. China added 23.three   GW, the largest capacity a country has ever produced within i   year, reaching a total capacity of 115   GW. Germany has become the second largest marketplace for new air current turbines, with a combined full of onshore and offshore current of air generation of five.8   GW. The US market recovered from its previous decline and reached 4.9   GW. In 2014, Brazil produced an boosted capacity of 2.8   GW and became the offset Latin American state that reached such a effigy. New installation records were besides achieved in Canada (one.9   GW) and Sweden (1   GW). Denmark has set a new world record by reaching a current of air ability share of 39% used for domestic power supply. Among the summit 12 countries, Espana, Kingdom of denmark, and Italy saw a stagnation in terms of new wind power installations.

Figure nine.two. Wind power capacity of the top x countries in 2014 [1].

The Global Current of air Energy Council (GWEC) [4] produced the data of Fig. 9.3 on wind energy almanac market and its forecast for the years ahead past continent.

Effigy 9.iii. Almanac market forecast by region for 2014–19.

The aim of this affiliate is to present the latest developments of wind energy engineering and provide an in-depth overview of the principles, modeling, and control strategies of variable speed WECS. The stability and power quality issues of grid-connected WECSs are discussed in particular, and command solutions are proposed to improve their performances.

The chapter provides an extensive coverage of the key principles on the design of WECSs. A simplified methodology for identifying the parameters of the main component of a WECS including the turbine pale radius, DC bus voltage, and the impedance characteristics of the transmission line are presented.

The proposed WECS consists of a three-bladed current of air turbine connected to the variable-speed squirrel-muzzle induction generator (SCIG). The mathematical models of the turbine, generator, and converter are derived. Due to the inherently intermittent nature of wind energy and continuously fluctuating air current velocities, maximum power indicate tracking (MPPT) strategies are employed to capture the maximum power from the air current turbine. The proposed MPPT method searches for a pseudo maximum power betoken based on the cognition of the characteristic bend of the current of air turbine to exist driven.

The wind turbine-generator set is connected to the supply through two converters AC/DC/Air conditioning. In the generator manner, the starting time converter is used as a pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier that ensures electric current period from the induction generator AC side to the DC side. The grid-side converter is used for controlling the DC-side voltage magnitude, the active and reactive powers past adjusting the modulation index of the inverter, and the phase shift between the voltage and electric current components of the grid. For the generator-side converter two-level and iii-level topologies are proposed to control the torque and flux of the SCIG driven past a variable speed wind turbine. Two control strategies, namely vector command or field-oriented command (FOC) and straight torque control (DTC), are designed, evaluated, and compared. A comparative study betwixt the conventional DTC and the DTC-SVPWM (space vector-PWM) for two- and three-level inverter topologies to improve the energy efficiency and performance characteristics of the variable speed WECS is presented. A simple pole placement control technique is used to pattern the controller for the filigree-side converter.

The PWM technique requires a programmed control law for the grid-side converter and the DC-link voltage based on the modulation index in amplitude (MI) and phase angle. The programmed PWM technique, adult and implemented as a lookup table, is used to control the half-dozen inverter switches. In the example of the three-level converter the SVPWM is used.

The chief objective of this study is to accost the stability and the quality of energy of the grid-integrated WECS. The affiliate includes several simulation results to demonstrate the impact of the proposed control strategies and converter topologies on the operation of the arrangement in terms of harmonics baloney and generator torque ripples. Simulation scenarios replicating different fault weather including symmetrical and asymmetrical faults on the network side are examined and discussed in terms of the dynamic operation, robustness, and stability of the overall power organisation.

This chapter is organized every bit follows. Section ix.2 shows the major components of a WECS and the different wind turbine configurations. In add-on, the modeling and MPPT control of the current of air turbine is developed and the different methods for the aerodynamic protection of the turbine are presented. Section 9.iii overviews the virtually contempo results related to the most popular wind energy systems currently available. The dynamic models of the synchronous and asynchronous generator are adult in this section.

The topologies of converters and their modulation techniques used to control the switching of the back-to-back Air conditioning/DC/AC converter are detailed in Section 9.4. Also included in this department are the various oft used PWM techniques and the modeling of the two- and three-level converters. The proposed infinite vector PWM (SVPWM) method for the iii-level converter is performed substantially to rest the DC-side voltage and minimize its fluctuations in lodge to ameliorate the quality of the energy.

The design methodology of indirect field–oriented control (IFOC) and the classical DTC, DTC-SVPWM for the two- and iii-level topologies are adult in Section ix.5. This section too presents the modeling and control design of the DC voltage and currents of the grid side. The blueprint of proportional–integral (PI) feedback controllers for the generator and grid systems are presented in this section. To minimize the effects of ripples due to symmetrical and asymmetrical faults of grid voltages or wind speed variations, control mechanisms are necessary to diminish the maximum harmonics of the back-to-back Air conditioning/DC/Air conditioning converters. Solutions to raise the power quality and meliorate the overall stability of the grid-integrated wind free energy system is clearly explained in Section 9.half-dozen. Protection systems against grid faults are presented in this section. Finally, a conclusion with a lilliputian synthesis of the piece of work performed in this chapter is presented in Section ix.7.

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Wind Energy

D.P. Zafirakis , ... J.Thou. Kaldellis , in Comprehensive Renewable Energy, 2012

2.06.7.3 Conclusion of General Trends

As already unsaid, through elaboration and statistical processing of the available – by and updated – information constitute in such databases, ane may also define past and current trends of current of air energy technology in many levels. To proceed even farther, indications on the free energy productivity of commercial wind machines over time are also useful in terms of both statistical and applied involvement. The ranking of commercial wind turbines may also be attempted on the basis of their specific annual energy production (divided by the rotor swept expanse) as well as on the basis of their mean annual power coefficient accomplished nether given wind potential conditions. Such results may be obtained from Figure 63 , where specific annual free energy yield and hateful annual ability coefficient are plotted against the rotor diameter for two dissimilar wind potential cases (i.due east., a medium–high and a loftier air current potential instance) providing some indications (currently based on past wind turbine models) on the upscaling of machines and their energy productivity performance [107]. In determination, availability of information in an organized environment may provide useful general indications on the expected free energy yield of commercial current of air turbines, allowing at the same time, withal, for a quite detailed analysis concerning the selection of the most appropriate current of air motorcar for a given site of specific wind potential characteristics.

Figure 63. Specific annual energy production (a) and hateful ability coefficient trends (b) every bit derived from information available in Windbase Ii [107].

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