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power production assessment

Quiz, 4 questions

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point

1.
The goal of that question is to compute the mean power of the wind turbine
if it was installed on the site of SIRTA using the full set of measures that we
have at 140m.

Discretize the wind speed range 0 to 20 m/s in intervals of width 0.1 m/s and
count for each interval, the number of times the wind speed at 140 m/s
belongs to that interval. Denote by V1 = 0.05 m/s, V2 = 0.15 m/s, ... ,
V200 = 19.95 m/s the 200 mean wind speed values of the intervals. The

number of times, the measured wind speed V ∈ (Vi − 0.05, Vi + 0.05) is

denoted by Ni .

Based on the power curve V ↦ P (V ) of the 2 MW wind turbine given in

the previous video and the histogram of wind velocities at 140 m compute
the mean power of the wind turbine with the formula:

∑ Ni P (Vi )
.
i
Pmean =
∑ Ni
i

Give Pmean in kW.

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power production assessment
Quiz, 4 questions 2.
Give, in percent, the capacity factor of that wind turbine if it was installed on
the site of SIRTA.

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3.
We now want to quantify the error that we would make in estimating the
annual mean power of the wind turbine by using the Weibull distribution
with the parameters directly computed with the power density method at
140m.

Compute the annual mean power of the wind turbine using the probability
density function of the Weibull distribution f (V ) with the parameters
k140m = 2.49 and c 140m = 7.67 m/s :

∞
Pmean = ∫ P (V )f (V )dV
V =0

Give Pmean in kW.

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Quiz, 4 questions 4.
By computing the annual mean power of the wind turbine using the Weibull
distribution obtained by extrapolation from the measures at the altitude of
40 m (i.e., kextra
140m
= 2.62 and c
extra
140m
= 7.63 m/s ) we obtain:

Pmean = 646kW .

In that context, it means that an industrial that would install a mast at the
height of 40 m and extrapolate the Weibull distribution at 140 m in order to
asses the annual power production of a wind turbine at this location will:

Overestimate the production by 1%.

Overestimate the production by 10%.

Underestimate the production by 10%.

Underestimate the production by 1%.

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