Calculate Wind Turbine Energy Output

 

 

 

How To Determine How Much Energy A Wind Turbine Will Produce At Your Location:

 

You need to determine what your local wind speed is:

 

• Go to either the “Canadian Wind Atlas”, the “United States Wind Resource Maps”, or the "World Atlas Maps".

 

Canadian Wind Atlas - http://www.windatlas.ca/en/maps.php

United States Wind Resource Maps - http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_maps.asp

World Atlas Maps - http://www.nrel.gov/wind/international_wind_resources.html

 

Example for Canadian Wind Atlas:
 

• First click & select the mean wind speed option in the display field box.

• Next click the height and the season. (for this example I choose 30M & Annual)

• Then move your mouse over the map area and click on your location.

• Next select mean wind energy in the upper left section of the panel on the left.

• Then enter your postal code in the values section underneath the map. (I used R5H 1G3)

• I then noted my annual wind speed which was 5.77 m/s

• Then click the turbine formula tab at the top of the pop-up box.

• Then enter the max power output amount in the 1^st box (Find this in specs of turbine)

*I used the maximum output for a 10 KW wind generator with max output of 12 KW.

• Next enter the turbine's cut-in wind speed (also called start-up wind speed / I used 3 m/s)

• Then enter the turbine's rated wind speed. (I entered 11 m/s)

• Finally click submit and you will see a chart showing the energy output for the different seasons. The annual output that was shown for my turbine based on my local wind speed was 37.77 Mwh/year (37,770 Kwh/year).

 

 

Calculation for the data you entered (12,3,11):