Objective
The fundamental requirements for conducting a temporal and geographic analysis of wind energy power plant deployment is to construct a database that contains the following for all wind projects deployed globally:
- Installed capacity (rated output) and capacity factor (if available for verification)
- Commissioning year
- Location (geographic coordinates)
- Resource quality measure
This information can then be used to statistically correlate historical project deployment to wind resource quality on a global and country-level basis. Our initial hypotheses are:
- There is very limited correlation on a global scale and a stronger one on a country scale.
- A deterioration of utilized resource is more apparent in countries with
- significant installed wind capacity and
- compact grids in a relatively limited geographic area. I.e. large countries such as the United States, China or Australia will likely not adhere to the trend.