CURRENT SITUATION OF WIND ENERGY IN TURKEY AND ASSESMENT OF YALOVA’S WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL

Authors : Cihan GÖKÇÖL, Adem UĞURLU

Pages : 49-59

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Publication Date : 2016-12-20

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Normal 0 21 false false false TR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:`Normal Tablo`; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:``; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:`Calibri`,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;} According to the wind energy statistics, Turkey has indicated a significant development about wind energy utilization in the last decade. But, it is the fact that Turkey has utilized only 4% of its total technical wind energy potential. Moreover, in order to achieve the wind energy targets in 2023 wind energy exploration activities should be accelerated in every region of Turkey and wind energy utilization in Turkey should be increased. This study aims to determine the wind energy characteristics of a site in Yalova, considering both the statistical formulations in literature and also the one year hourly wind data in time series format which was obtained from the Turkish State Meteorological Service insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(TSMS); in 2012. To achieve this goal, after having obtained all the wind characteristics of the location such as average wind speed, dominant wind direction, power density values, Weibull parameters insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(k and c); that act very important role in determining the wind energy profile of any site are calculated by applying one of the widely used methods to the present wind data. Finally, all the findings obtained from the study are discussed in terms of quality and quantity.
Keywords : Turkey, wind energy, Weibull, Wind speed, Wind power