WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND SITING : A WIDER PERSPECTIVE

摘要

This article aims to provide a broad overview of wind resource assessment and siting around the world. For convenience, the world has been divided into a number of regions according to their wind climate. The characteristics of these regions are described in some detail and so is the ability of state-of-the art models to predict the wind resources. Where possible, examples of wind resource estimation studies are also given. (The views and information presented in this article are biased towards whatwe ourselves have been working with).