Efficiency of wind power production and its determinants

Simone Pieralli, Matthias Ritter and Martin Odening

Energy, 2015, vol. 90, issue P1, 429-438

Abstract: This article examines the efficiency of wind energy production. Using non-convex efficiency analysis, we quantify production losses for 19 wind turbines in four wind parks across Germany. In a second stage regression, we adapt the linear regression results of Kneip, Simar, and Wilson (2015) to explain electricity losses by means of a bias-corrected truncated regression analysis. The results show that electricity losses amount to 27% of the maximal producible electricity. Most of these losses are from changing wind conditions, while 6% are from turbine errors.

Keywords: Wind energy; Efficiency; Free disposal hull; Bias correction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.055

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