Performance Analysis of Coastal Wind Farms in Jiangsu, China

Abstract:

The operational performances of coastal wind farms, located at the east coast of Jiangsu Province of China, are reported in this paper. The result shows that although a rich wind resources predicted in this area, a strong variation of wind resources characteristics are observed between wind farms. Annual averaged wind speeds of five wind farms at hub height range from 4.8 to 6.6 m/s. In addition, the wind shear coefficient shows largely different although they appear to agree with coastal region characteristics. Ru Dong not only has the highest wind shear coefficient but also a largest range of wind shear coefficient variation amplitude. The Capacity Factors of the selected wind farms range from 16% to 27%. Ru Dong shows a lowest Capacity Factor of 16% which may due to the low average wind speed and high wind shear coefficient. On the contrary, Da Feng has a lower Capacity Factor with sensible wind resources indicating either an improved wind turbine technology or an optimized wind farm operational maintenance is needed to increase wind farm efficiency. The result obtained in this paper provides valuable information for future offshore wind farm development in China.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 448-453)
• Pages: 1858-1864
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.448-453.1858
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Yan Hui Feng*, Yu Jiang, Ying Ning Qiu, Da Wei Su, Hai Feng Li, Zhi Huang, Jin Liu, Yu Cui
• Keywords: Availability, Capacity Factor, Coastal Wind Power, Jiangsu

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