Wind Resource Assessment
A special issue of Resources (ISSN 2079-9276).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: renewable energy; wind energy; wind resource assessment; climate change
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Dear Colleagues,
Wind energy is expected to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In order to exploit the enormous potential of wind energy, it is necessary to find new locations suitable for wind turbine installations.
To describe the suitability of an area for utilizing wind energy, the concept of wind energy potential is used. The wind energy potential is hierarchically split up into meteorological (resource) potential, geographical potential, technological potential, economic potential, and implementation potential. Wind resource assessment is complicated by the intermittent and stochastic nature of the wind. Modeling the wind resources requires mature techniques to handle its great spatiotemporality variability.
Manuscript submissions focusing on any topic of optimizing wind resource assessment are welcome and encouraged. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Meteorological, geographical, technical, and/or economic wind potential
- Spatial wind resource modeling
- Wind turbine and wind farm siting optimization
- Wind speed distribution fitting
- Wind resource under climate change
- Temporal variability of wind energy
- Possibilities to buffer the volatility of wind energy
- Effects of repowering on wind energy yield
- Development of scenarios to achieve certain wind energy shares
- Greenhouse gas mitigation potential
- Wind shear
- Role of air density in wind energy assessment
- Onshore wind energy
- Offshore wind energy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wind energy
- wind turbines
- wind potential
- wind speed distribution
- wind farm
- repowering
