Wind Energy

About Wind Energy

It is well known from the history that wind can be usedvas energy for betterment of the mankind. With new technology, wind can be used for electrical power generation. As of now, wind speed information is available in different locations. However, the power generation from wind, is not readily available to the user. Here wind turbine at a fixed height of 75 meters is used to simulate energy potential in different locations of India and the data is made easily available to the potential developers through this APP with monthly potential in the form of a table.

The gap between energy demand and its generation is constantly widening. People have started giving more emphasis on renewable sources of energy. This paper presents the estimation of potential for wind energy generation maps based on fixed wind turbine capacity. Although wind energy has developed substantially in recent years, we have only wind speed and wind potential density maps. Our attempt here is to generate wind energy generation potential maps. Major step in achieving this goal is modeling of wind energy conversion system using TRNSYS software. The model consists of three main components namely the weather, the turbines and energy conversion parameters. The weather data are provided from the meteorological database, namely Meteonorm. The simulated output is compared with actual wind generation of wind farms. After comparing our model results with the existing wind energy generation data, we have extended to compute the wind energy generation for all locations in India. For simulation, 4691 locations are identified considering 0.25° × 0.25° interval. The energy generation simulated data are compiled and developed into maps that are useful to all wind energy developers. The data generated and presented in the form of maps are for all the 30 states of India. More details can be seen from DOI: 10.4236/jpee.2016.410002