Wind Farm and Resource Datasets: A Comprehensive Survey and Overview

Diogo Menezes, Mateus Mendes, Jorge Alexandre Almeida and Torres Farinha
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Diogo Menezes: Polythecnic Institute of Coimbra—ISEC, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal
Mateus Mendes: Polythecnic Institute of Coimbra—ISEC, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal
Jorge Alexandre Almeida: Polythecnic Institute of Coimbra—ISEC, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal
Torres Farinha: Polythecnic Institute of Coimbra—ISEC, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-24

Abstract: The use of clean and renewable energy sources is increasingly important, for economic and environmental reasons. Wind plays a key role among renewable energy sources. Hence, the location, monitoring and maintenance of wind turbines are areas that have received more and more attention in recent years. The paper presents a survey of datasets of wind resources, wind farm installed capacity and wind farm operation, which contain generous amounts of data. Those datasets are important tools, freely available for analysis of wind resources and study of the performance of wind turbines. A short analysis of one of the datasets is also presented, identifying different operational regions, and the ones more likely to aggregate failures. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is used to study wind turbines’ behavior.

Keywords: wind farm; wind resources; wind turbine maintenance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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