Improved wind energy production prediction for remote aegean sea islands

摘要

Weibull is the most established analytical probability distribution for the description of the wind potential in specific locations around the globe. Acknowledging this, the most common methods of Weibull estimation are currently evaluated for different, representative remote islands of the Aegean Sea. Accordingly, based on the fairly good evaluation of theoretical energy yield results, a new method for estimating Weibull is developed (i.e. the "E-Weibull") that aims at the improved description of a given wind regime in terms of wind energy yield. To this end, the energy-adjusted "E-Weibull" is next applied in the Aegean Sea area, with energy yield results being favourably compared with the ones produced by all other methods.