Assessment of Wind Energy Production Software

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dc.contributor.advisorMahoney, Joeen_US
dc.contributor.authorHermannsson, Hermann Reyniren_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-23T18:34:17Z
dc.date.available2015-12-14T17:55:54Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-23
dc.date.submitted2013en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2013en_US
dc.description.abstractAn examination of two computer programs used for estimating wind energy, RETScreen and System Advisor Model (SAM), are examined and compared to measured data from a wind farm. Wind speed and electrical production estimated by these programs are examined and compared to the measured data. Both programs assume no losses and predict data for an ideal wind farm. Measured data on the other hand includes losses within the farm (e.g. array loss, airfoil loss and availability loss). According to results, RETScreen underestimates the electrical production by 35% and SAM overestimates it by 26%.en_US
dc.embargo.termsRestrict to UW for 1 year -- then make Open Accessen_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.otherHermannsson_washington_0250O_11348.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/22908
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the individual authors.en_US
dc.subjectRenewable Energy; RETScreen; SAM; System advisor model; Wind energyen_US
dc.subject.otherCivil engineeringen_US
dc.subject.otherEnergyen_US
dc.subject.othercivil engineeringen_US
dc.titleAssessment of Wind Energy Production Softwareen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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