Wind farm micro-siting is a complex process that requires multidisciplinary analysis and optimization. The problem consists not only of positioning the wind turbines in the locations within the site that have the most wind energy potential, but also it has to minimize wake interference between turbines. This means that usually the sum of the expected isolated turbines is less than the actual pe...

OBJECTIVES Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can serve as a multidimensional means of evaluating the relationship between the presence of wind turbines in residential areas and their consequence for health. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a relationship exists between the presence of wind farms at different stages of development and the HRQoL of people living in their vi...

The prediction of wind farm output power is considered as an effective way to increase the wind power capacity and improve the safety and economy of power system. It is one of the hot research topics on wind power. The wind farm output power is related to many factors such as wind speed, temperature, etc., which is difficult to be described by some mathematical expression. In this paper, Back P...

In this paper, it is shown that a combination of PV solar farm and storage batteries can be advantageous in a distribution system having wind farm in close vicinity to the solar Farm. This concept utilizes the photovoltaic (PV) solar farm (SF) as Flexible ac transmission system controller-static synchronous compensator, to regulate the point of common coupling voltage during night time when the...

Wind-farms have negative impacts on the environment, mainly through habitat destruction and bird mortality, making it urgent to design predictive tools to use in landscape planning. A frequent assumption of wind-farm assessment studies is that bird distribution and abundance and bird mortality through collision with turbines are closely related. However, previous results are contradictory and q...

Condition monitoring systems are increasingly installed in wind turbine generators with the goal of providing component-specific information to the wind farm operator and hence increase equipment availability through maintenance and operating actions based on this information. In some cases, however, the economic benefits of such systems are unclear. A quantitative measure of these benefits may...

Wind farms consist of clusters of industrial wind turbines which, when placed in rural areas, are associated with intrusive and unwanted sound. Wind turbine noise has characteristics sufficiently different from other, more extensively studied, noise sources to suggest that standard industrial noise standards are not appropriate for measurement and assessment purposes. A seven year study is repo...

Stakeholders are those groups, individuals and agencies who have a stake in, or some influence on, a project. For the wind farm developer, Stakeholders hold a key to project success though it is easy to undervalue their role. This paper examines the issue of how stakeholders can be included in wind farm developments, what issues may arise and examines possible ways of dealing with these. It is ...

In the scenario of energy and environmental crises that we are facing today, integrating renewable sources of energy with the existing power grids is rapidly becoming the most obvious solution. Harnessing electricity from wind is a promising option that has lately attracted attention and research funding worldwide. However, increasing wind power penetration still remains a daunting problem star...