Wind characteristics and weibull parameter analysis to predict wind power potential along the south-east Coastline of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The main objective of this paper was to analyze the statistical wind data obtained from the measurements of Automatic Weather Station (AWS), India Meteorological Data (IMD) located in the south-east coastline of Tamil Nadu. In this study the Wind Power Density (WPD) estimation output for a small scale wind power from the surface wind data was analyzed using Weibull parameters and maximum likelihood and least square methods. The Wind Speed and Wind Direction frequency distributions from the year 2009 to 2013 were analyzed. The Weibull parameters are determined based on the wind distribution statistics calculated from the measured data. The Wind Power Density out with the actual data were compared and it is shown that the Weibull representative data estimate the wind energy output very accurately.