Abstract:
—If proposed wind park configurations are planned
through a globally coordinated approach across a utility service
area, then electricity can be fed into the grid with substantial
cost advantages. This paper shows that by four important measures, such optimal multiunit plans are sensitive to wind regimes
presented by candidate sites to available makes of wind energy
conversion systems (WECS). As part of the work, a pre-qualification process based on expected full-load hours (EFLH) is
introduced for available makes of WECS with reference to candidate sites. It is shown that application of the pre-qualification prior
to optimal multiunit planning leads to substantial improvement
by the four measures. Application of the pre-qualification and
planning to the state of Andhra Pradesh (India) is presented as an
example case. Possible refinements and augmentations over the
basic approach are discussed.
