Project: Norwegian Wind Atlas Customer: NVE/ENOVA Revision: 2.0.0
Scenario: Finnmark west 11 User: VECTOR AS Date : 30.04.01 11:02
+ Wind Resources in Finnmark west 11
Average wind speed
The wind climate displays large seasonal variations. The average wind speed is presented for different averaging periods.
Averaging period: Year Year Spring Summer Autumn Winter
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Fig. 1 Digital terrain model Fig. 2 Wind speed at 50 meters height
Measurement station Averaging period: Year
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Wind turbine(s)
Area classification
The total model area is: 678 km2 while the area above land is: 398 km2. The land area is classified in four groups according to the average wind speed at 50 meters height. The first and largest group cover the land area where the average wind speeds is above 6 m/s. The subsequent groups covers reduced areas as the average wind speed is increased to above 7 m/s, 8 m/s and 9 m/s.
The suitability of an area for wind energy purposes depends on the size of high wind speed areas. Further it will be an advantage if the high wind speed areas are grouped or connected. Table 1 classifies areas according to minimum wind speed and minimum size of connected sub-areas.
. >6 m/s . >7 m/s . >8 m/s . >9 m/s .
> 0.04 km2 371.8 (93) 311.4 (78) 208.5 (52) 69.7 (17)
> 0.10 km2 371.7 (93) 311.0 (78) 208.0 (52) 66.6 (16)
> 0.50 km2 371.5 (93) 309.6 (77) 205.2 (51) 56.4 (14)
> 1.00 km2 370.7 (93) 307.2 (77) 200.6 (50) 50.6 (12)
Table 1. Areas in km2 classified in groups according to minimum average wind speed and minimum size of connected sub-areas, number in brackets is the area in the group as a percentage of the total land area
Energy production
The maximum theoretical energy production from the total land area with wind speed above 6 m/s is: 18296 GWh /year
The energy production is based on an installed capacity of 15MW/km2. The installed capacity will only be obtained when the wind speed typically exceeds 12-13 m/s. For lower wind speeds a wind turbine produces its installed capacity only a fraction of the time, usually expressed as full load hours. The right figure gives the relation between full load hours and average wind speed used in the energy calculations in this study: Energy calculations.
. >6 m/s . >7 m/s . >8 m/s . >9 m/s .
> 0.04 km2 18296 (100) 16317 (89) 11825 (64) 4361 (23)
> 0.10 km2 18257 (99) 16265 (88) 11770 (64) 4168 (22)
> 0.50 km2 18115 (99) 16085 (87) 11527 (63) 3525 (19)
> 1.00 km2 17966 (98) 15886 (86) 11233 (61) 3162 (17)
Table 2. Energy production in GWh/year for an installed capacity of 15MW/km2, the number in brackets gives the produced energy as a percentage of the total possible energy production for the land area.
Climatology
The wind resources in the model is based on the following wind climatology(s):
Fruholmen translated, external: Finnmark west 10
Helnes and Kistrand interpolated (0.7 + 0.3), external: Finnmark west 12
Helnes
Helnes translated, external: Finnmark west 17
Particular comments: Non
General comments: Climatology