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...Yih-huei Wan; Michael Milligan; Brian Parsons The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) started a project in 2000 to record long-term, high-frequency (1-Hz) wind power data from large commercial wind power plants in the Midwestern United States. Outputs from about 330 MW of installed wind...

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...Yih-huei Wan; Demy Bucaneg,, Jr. To evaluate short-term wind power fluctuations and their impact on electric power systems, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in cooperation with Enron Wind, has started a project to record output power from several large commercial wind power plants at the 1...

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...Dale E. Berg, JSEE Associate Editor (Wind Energy) wind power wind power plants wind turbines project engineering Although the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering ( JSEE ) has published special issues on wind energy before, this is the first since November 1996. After experiencing...

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... turbines wind power plants power engineering computing neural nets learning (artificial intelligence) statistical analysis parameter estimation During the last decade, models have emerged 1 2 3 4 5 to estimate and predict the power produced by wind farms. To maximize the use of wind...

... Tower height 50.0 m wind power plants wind turbines power generation planning IEC standards Worldwide there is a great potential for on-shore and also offshore wind farms where a large number of units are installed. The large number of units in similar conditions will enable...

... for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF SOLAR ENERGY ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME Solar Energy Division, March 2001; final revision, June 2001. Associate Editor: D. Berg. 01 March 2001 01 June 2001 wind turbines wind power plants wind tunnels vortices Horizontal...