Wind Characteristics for Design of Wind Turbines: Research in the USA

摘要

The Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) of the United States Department of Energy has the primary responsibility for providing information on wind characteristics for design and for evaluation of performance of wind energy conversion systems (WECS). The objectives of the whole program are, broadly, to develop technical wind information which is relevant to the design of WECS, to determine suitable methods of measuring and analyzing the wind for evaluating WECS performance, and to communicate the information usefully to WECS designers. (ERA citation 05:018806)