EE/MM/PH 301 Wind Energy Tutorial 9

1. Determine the wind speed at a height of 40 m over surface terrain with a few trees. If the
wind speed at a height of 10 m is known to be 6 m s-1.
 2. Analysis of time series data for a given site has yielded an average velocity of 5.5 m
s-1. It is determined that a Rayleigh wind speed distribution gives a good fit to the
wind data. Based on a Rayleigh wind speed distribution, estimate the number of
hours that the wind speed will be between 8.0 and 9.0 m s-1 during the year.

3. The Weibull parameters c = 6 m s-1 and k = 1.6 are determined from annual wind
data.

i) What is the average speed at this site?

ii) Estimate the number of hours per year that the wind speed will be between 7.0
and 7.5 m s-1 during the year.