A Case Study of Installation of a Wind Power Plant in the Sinop Province, Turkey

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 26 - 34, 25.02.2017

Semih Akın

Abstract

World
energy demand has been increasing very rapidly, resulting in environmental
issues such as the greenhouse effect and air pollution. This situation stimulates
the developing countries to benefit more efficiently from alternative energy
sources. In parallel to this policy, Turkey as a developing country has been increasing
incentives and investments to wind power conversion systems. Thanks to these
investments, the numbers of the wind power plants (WPP) have been increasing in
the country each passing day. In this study, the Sinop Province where wind
potential is high, is analyzed in terms of establishment of a WPP. Four years
of hourly average wind speed data of the selected region are applied to the
Windsim software: annual energy production, capacity factor and also power and
energy curves of selected wind turbines are obtained as output. The study shows
that a WPP that has approximately 29 GWh/y annual energy production and 33%
capacity factor can be operated with five Vestas V90 commercial wind turbines.

Keywords

Renewable Energy Sources, The Sinop Province, Wind Energy

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