PRESENTATION

FOR
ENERGY ECONOMICS AND
Implementation
and economical
PLANNING
( ESL750 )
study of HAWT under different
wind scenarios
FRANKLY KANYAKO, ISAM JANAJREH
EXPLAINED BY GAGANDEEP SINGH BAWA
2014JES2626

Type of Paper

Investigative Paper.

Analysis of location & technology to be used for

Appraisal Procedure.

Comparison of cost of electricity with the local

producers.

Net Present Value[NPV] & Internal Rate of Return[IRR]

used as Economic Tools.

ABSTRACT(In Brief)

Wind energy is continues to grow into a major player into the

renewable energy market.

More than 3% of global electricity supply comes from wind power in

2012.

The technology continues to mature thereby reducing the deployment

cost at a value competing with the least expensive natural gas power
plant.

Diligent analysis of the wind including average wind speed, wind gust,
boundary layer, seasonal and diurnal wind pattern adding to land mortgage, public perception, road and grid accessibility are all key factors
for successful and profitable wind turbine implementation.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Masdar City is anarcologyproject inAbu Dhabi, in theUnited Arab

Emirates

Designed by the British architectural firmFoster and Partners, the city

relies on solar energyand otherrenewable energysources.

Masdar City will host the headquarters of theInternational Renewable

Energy Agency(IRENA)

Coordinates of LOCATION (244202N, 546132N)

DATA & INSTRUMENTS USED

In this study, the wind speed data in a 10 min series format for city measured
between 2010 and 2012, have been statistically analysed.

A 50 m tubular meteorological tower was installed.

The mast is equipped with

5 calibrated Hersteller Thies Climacup anemometer,

two wind vanes,
one Campbell CR1000 data log-ger
three sensors of temperature, barometric pressure and humidity measurements.

The data is collected at 5 Heights (10m, 30m 40m, 49m, 50m)

DATA ANALYSIS

The maximum wind speed for few days can be as high as 9.5
9.8 m/s.

The wind speed becomes stronger and more stable as height

increases.

The summer (MayAugust)and autumn seasons are the

windiest seasons with the mean wind speed of around 4.5
m/s, while other seasons especially winter season tends to be
less-windy.

The diurnal wind speed has its minimum during the morning
hours and maximum during the late afternoon and extends

DATA ANALYSIS

The wind rose shows the wind direction conditions at height

of 30 m and 49 m.

The wind rose indicates the direction the wind is coming from.

It can seen that the most common wind direction is NorthWest(NW) of city.

From this direction, the wind comes approximately 20% of the

time at 49 m and 15% of the time at 30 m.

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

Wind power density

Frequency distribution of wind speed

Turbulence intensity

RESULTS

Potential wind power

HEIGHT

POWER

10m

37.36 W/m2

30m

59.52 W/m2

40m

66.59 W/m2

49m

77.86 W/m2

50m

81.08 W/m2

RESULTS

Turbulence intensity and

wind speed distribution.
Turbulent

intensity
decreases with wind
speed and height.

Masdar

City is
classified as a highturbulent region.

RESULTS

Weibull distribution
As

the height
increases, the peak
point in Weibull
density distribution
tends to move towards
the higher wind
values.

RESULTS

Capacity factor and economic

assessment
Because

of the low wind

speed a poor capacity factor is
resulted.

Based

on the annual power

generated by Vestas V44
of2812.24 MWh at the height
of 40 m in 2010, an equivalent
of110 wind spots are required.
Evidently, wind farm of this
size will occupy much large

RESULTS

Economic assessment
RETScreen

International
Wind Energy project software
has been used in this study.

DATA

USED

Investment cost: 1500 $/kW.

Operation and maintenance

costs: 2.5% of total investment.

Project life: 20 years.

Pricing scheme used:

$0.050/kWh.

Assumptions
Average

wind speed is
measured at 40 m.

2012

wind data is used for

economic analysis.

Missing
IIR

Data

(taken 10%)

RESULT
NPV

of both turbines comes out be

Negative

Therefore

current economic feasibility

of installing wind turbine is not
promising.

The

internal rate of returnfor both

turbines is negative and may not be
profitable throughouttheir life time.

External

project.

financing is required for the

CONCLUSION

The annual collected data categorized Masdar City as poor wind region
with high turbulence intensity as high as 17% at 10 m.

Based on the investment-return and without accounting for the carbon

trading, the 3.5 kW have better capacity factor when compared to
VestasV44 but both are economically not a viable investment at
Masdar due to low wind speed in the region.

RECOMMENDATION

The Data Taken is for 10 min sample per day. Therefore exact
calculation for total energy that can be harnessed from wind per day
cannot be calculated.

Usage of Frequency distribution given the theoretical data which cant

be compared with the actual scenario as vary in Desert & Sea-shore
type of Environment.