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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"wind power"”.
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Wind power applications to groundwater remediation
"The use of renewable energy systems to power groundwater remediation systems seems like an inherently good idea because of potential cost savings and environmental benefits associated with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Small wind turbine systems marketed for single residence applications may …
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Improving Predictability of Wind Power Generation
Wind energy plays an important role in decarbonizing the economy and increasingly accounts for a growing share of electricity supply in the United States. However, availability of wind resource is highly dependent on variable factors such as weather and local geographies, making wind power …
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Modeling and prediction of wind power data
In a power system, supply and demand must be equal at all times. The wind power forecast accuracy is directly connected to the need for balancing energy and hence to the cost of wind power integration. Many ways are used to predict wind power, but the accuracy of the predictions is not as good as …
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Ultracapacitors for off grid wind power systems
The main reason for wind turbine to be not as prevalent as traditional power systems is because they do not have an effective storage capacity. However, researchers in material science and engineering have found ways to resolve this problem by developing "ultracapacitors" that store energy by …
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Analysis of the uncertainty of wind power predictions
Wind power predictions improve the technical and economical integration of large shares of wind energy into the existing electricity supply system. In this work the uncertainty related to short-term predictions of the power output of wind farms is investigated in detail where uncertainty refers to …
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Harmonic propagation studies in offshore wind power clusters
… to optimise the electrical network and reduce power losses. As this issue represents a combinational problem, the larger electrical systems present more complexity - the reason why this problem remains unsolved. This research aims to develop an algorithm that suggests a set of configurations in …
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Historical Consistent Neural Networks for Wind Power Prediction
… with a primary emphasis on supporting reliable wind energy forecasts. The contributions of this work are threefold. First, a modular computational environment was designed to support rigorous HCNN experimentation, to ensure reproducibility across diverse architectural configurations. Second, …
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Economic modeling of intermittency in wind power generation
… to global climate change. Over the past decade wind energy has steadily emerged as a potential source for large-scale, low carbon energy. As wind power generation increases around the world, there is increasing interest in the impacts of adding intermittent power to the electricity grid and the …
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The conversion of wind power to electrical power
The electrical-producing windmill industry boomed during 1983. It was estimated that"unit sales during 1983 would be twice those of the prior 10 years combined." Most of the activity has been in the development of windfarms in the western states and Hawaii. The boom is largely due to (1) tax breaks …
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Generation reliability modeling and analysis of wind power plants
The reliability impact of wind generation is evaluated using a set of reliability modeling and analysis tools implemented with MATLAB. As expected, the addition of wind generation increases the reliability of a power system. However, the extent to which the reliability is increase varies with the …
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Wind power utilization improvement by using hierarchical controlled microgrid
… solution for improving the utilization of wind power energy without causing impact to the power grid by using microgrid concept, which promises the function of making a cluster of generators and loads behave like a controllable unit, is proposed. This microgrid concept is achieved by a …
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Short term forecasting of categorical changes in wind power
Includes bibliographical references.
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Modelling the marine boundary layer for offshore wind power utilisation
For planning and operation of offshore wind farms a profound knowledge of the meteorological conditions is indispensable. This thesis is concerned with modelling the structure of the marine atmospheric boundary layer, with focus on effects, which are important for wind resource assessment. Data …
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Yawing effects in wind power plants: stochastic wake modeling and control
… the spatio-temporal attributes of wakes behind wind turbines. We utilize a stochastic dynamical modeling framework to develop reduced-order models of wind farm turbulence that capture the effects of yaw misalignment due to control or atmospheric variability on turbine wakes and their …
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Analysis of wind power generation with application of wind tunnel attachment
1 PDF file (vii, 63 pages)
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Integrated Energy and Environmental Analysis of Utility-Scale Wind Power Production
… environmental and economic systems worldwide. Wind power was presented as one of several technologies that collectively could mitigate many of the adverse effects of global climate change if deployed at sufficient scale. The objective of this study was to explore the sustainability implications …
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Low-head hydropower as a reserve power source for wind power
Wind power generation faces intermittency challenges, typically requiring reserve power generation sources burning fossil fuels to maintain reliability of the electricity grid in the event of a decrease in wind. This study proposes an alternative hypothesis: that hydropower turbines installed at …
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Managing Financial Risks for Wind Power Producers in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Wind power plant operators are exposed to financial risk in wholesale electricity markets due to the uncertain nature of wind forecasts, day-ahead electricity prices, and real-time electricity prices. In the event of a shortfall compared to the production forecast, the wind generator may have to …
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