Wind farm and resource datasets: A comprehensive survey and overview

Abstract

The use of clean and renewable energy sources is increasingly important, for economic and environmental reasons. Wind plays a key role among renewable energy sources. Hence, the location, monitoring and maintenance of wind turbines are areas that have received more and more attention in recent years. The paper presents a survey of datasets of wind resources, wind farm installed capacity and wind farm operation, which contain generous amounts of data. Those datasets are important tools, freely available for analysis of wind resources and study of the performance of wind turbines. A short analysis of one of the datasets is also presented, identifying different operational regions, and the ones more likely to aggregate failures. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is used to study wind turbines’ behavior.