Probabilistic Reliability Evaluation Of Wind Power Generators

Abstract

Renewable energy sources, especially wind turbine generators, are considered as important generation alternatives in electric power systems due to their non exhausted nature and benign environmental effects. The Reliability evaluation of generating systems with wind energy sources is a complex process. It requires an accurate wind speed forecasting technique for the wind farm site. The system reliability shows the availability and the power generation model. In this work the basic system reliability indices are calculated. Historical data collected over one year is used for the evaluation. For the data analysis excel data analysis tool is used and probability distribution of the wind speeds are calculated. This work presents the reliability evaluation procedure for wind power generation system. This study shows the system availability for the generation of power from wind turbine generators installed at the Chithradurga district of Karnataka state.