| dc.description.abstract | Renewable energy systems such as wind energy are a growing market. This thesis describes how a wind turbine works, investigates distributed wind energy systems, and develops a framework for choosing the most suitable wind turbine system for an end user with regards to technological and economic issues. The study was conducted by collecting wind speed, power demand and power output data from different wind turbines with power capacities of 110 kW, 150 kW and 250 kW which was then used to model and evaluate a use case.
The data was compared with regards to different variables such as number of turbines and hub heights, and then gathered in graphs and tables to finalize the framework. It resulted in a baseline framework which can tell most end users step by step how to do an analysis themselves and help them choose the wind turbine model that fits their use-cases. Additionally, for our analysis it resulted in the 150-kW turbine being the most suitable in a techno-economic sense. This turbine was the most viable for our use case simulation with the least fluctuations and the shortest payback period. | |
