A Wind Power Plant Feasibility Study for Bursa,Gemlik Region,Turkey

Abstract

Increasing energy demand on a global scale and with the emerging constraint of conventional energy resources has forced the developing countries to improve alternative energy sources. Especially in last decades, many studies and researches have been done in order to benefit more efficiently from renewable energy sources. Wind energy as a renewable energy source has showed a greater improvement since it is sustainable, efficient and clean energy. As a natural consequence of this development, the number of wind power plants (WPP) investments has been increasing expeditiously all around the world. Correspondingly, Turkey promotes the incentives and investments to the wind power conversion systems. Thus, the external dependence on energy of Turkey will decrease with these incentives and investments. In addition to that, competitive power of Turkey in the energy sector will increase dramatically. In this study, a WPP feasibility study is released for Gemlik Bay connected with Bursa Province in which has remarkable wind potential but has not any WPP. Wind data of Gemlik applied to Windsim software; annual energy production (AEP) and capacity factor are calculated. The study shows that through 5 Vestas V90 turbines with 2-MW capacity in Gemlik Ata region, establishment of an economic WPP which has over 40 GWh/y AEP capacity is feasible.

Keywords

• Gemlik Region
• Renewable Energy Sources
• Wind Energy
• Wind Power Plant
• Windsim

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