Observations of the Wind Resource Across the Dublin Urban Area

Keith Sunerland, Michael Conlon, Gerald Mills, Rowan Feely

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Abstract

This paper presents an investigation of wind observations made at three (of a network of ten) stations in Dublin. Two of the stations are located over different parts of the urbanized landscape and one is located at Dublin Airport, which exemplifies a typical meteorological station. The purpose of the analysis is to evaluate the nature of the wind resource in the urban area. The potential output of a range of commercially available micro wind turbines at one of the stations is considered. At this location, an anemometer is mounted in a similar manner to international examples of building mounted domestic installations of micro wind turbines. Finally, the paper investigates the relevancy of the Weibull and Rayleigh probability density functions as a means to represent urban wind power density for this Network.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event46th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC) -
Duration: 5 Sep 20118 Sep 2011

Conference

Conference46th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC)
Period5/09/118/09/11

Keywords

  • wind observations
  • Dublin
  • urbanized landscape
  • Dublin Airport
  • wind resource
  • micro wind turbines
  • anemometer
  • Weibull
  • Rayleigh probability density functions
  • urban wind power density

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