Simplified Analysis of the Electric Power Losses for On-Shore Wind Farms Considering Weibull Distribution Parameters

Antonio Colmenar-Santos, Severo Campíez-Romero, Lorenzo Alfredo Enríquez-Garcia and Clara Pérez-Molina
Additional contact information
Antonio Colmenar-Santos: Industrial Engineering Higher Technical School, Spanish University for Distance Education, Juan del Rosal St., 12, Madrid 28040, Spain
Severo Campíez-Romero: Industrial Engineering Higher Technical School, Spanish University for Distance Education, Juan del Rosal St., 12, Madrid 28040, Spain
Lorenzo Alfredo Enríquez-Garcia: Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Riobamba-Chimborazo, EC060103, Ecuador
Clara Pérez-Molina: Industrial Engineering Higher Technical School, Spanish University for Distance Education, Juan del Rosal St., 12, Madrid 28040, Spain

Energies, 2014, vol. 7, issue 11, 1-30

Abstract: Electric power losses are constantly present during the service life of wind farms and must be considered in the calculation of the income arising from selling the produced electricity. It is typical to estimate the electrical losses in the design stage as those occurring when the wind farm operates at rated power, nevertheless, it is necessary to determine a method for checking if the actual losses meet the design requirements during the operation period. In this paper, we prove that the electric losses at rated power should not be considered as a reference level and a simple methodology will be developed to analyse and foresee the actual losses in a set period as a function of the wind resource in such period, defined according to the Weibull distribution, and the characteristics of the wind farm electrical infrastructure. This methodology facilitates a simple way, to determine in the design phase and to check during operation, the actual electricity losses.

Keywords: wind farm; electric losses; Weibull distribution (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: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/7/11/6856/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/7/11/6856/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:7:y:2014:i:11:p:6856-6885:d:41724

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().