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Abstract-- The experiments were performed in order to
evaluate the relevance of the existing meteorological data for
the assessment of the wind potential of Serbia.
The wind potential in the northern part of Serbia at the
periphery of sand dunes region Deliblatska peščara was
calculated from the wind velocity measured at 20 m, 30 m,
and 40 m heights above the ground and compared by the wind
data at 10 m height obtained from nearby located metrological
station number 13180 and from wind data collected at the
internet site http://meteo.infospace.ru. The met station data
were used in original form with wind velocity discretisation
0.1 m/s and in rounded-off 1 m/s discretisation form. The
detailed comparison of wind data evolution during March
2005 was made illustrating the validity of the meteorological
station and internet data as compared to more precise wind
mast measurements.
Index Terms— renewable energy sources, wind power,
wind potential of Deliblatska Peščara, WAsP model, wind
rose, wind frequency, wind measurement
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Testing of Internet Wind Data for Regional
Wind Climate Assessment at Deliblatska
Peščara site
I. INTRODUCTION
HE planning of wind potential resources exploitation
usually starts with a rough estimation of wind
availability based on the corresponding wind atlas
estimation. In the absence of the wind atlas of Serbia and
Montenegro we tried to analyze the existing meteorological
data from the met stations to identify the regions suitable
for the wind power exploitation. Several papers were
published by different authors and institutions related to the
regional wind potential but no one publication is suitable
for identifying the all relevant windy regions in Serbia since
several of existing met stations were located at the sites not
exposed to predominant wind [1]-[3]. The study prepared
for the Electrical Company of Serbia is probably the most
valuable one [1]. It contains the wind velocity map of
Serbia obtained by analyzing ten years met data of about 30
met stations.
In this paper we report the results of wind resources
prediction in Deliblatska Peščara, the region in the northern
part of Serbia, which is exposed to predominant southeast
wind košava.
This work has been performed within the EC funded
RISE project (Contract number FP6-INCO2-509161).
The author is with Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade University
Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73, 11120 Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
ezlatano@etf.bg.ac.yu
Miodrag Zlatanović
II. MET STATION LOCATIONS
The region of South Banat in northern part of Serbia is
known as a windy area with predominant wind from
southeast direction, called Košava, which is especially
present during late autumn, winter and early spring, but is
of lower intensity during summer period. The land is
predominantly flat with few hilly terrains and only one
mountain at the Serbian-Romanian border located at the
east part of the area. The sandy dunes area at the west part
of South Banat region is a Special Nature Reserve –
Deliblatska Peščara - in which the construction of large
wind farms is forbidden by the low.
Fig. 1 contains the map of Serbia with the principal
met station locations from which the synoptic data of
interest for wind resources predictions are available. The
central and southern parts of Serbia include some mountain
regions in which the wind resources prediction is difficult
due to non-convenient locations of the met stations. The
relevant met stations for wind climate assessment in
predominantly flat South Banat are Banatski Karlovac and
Vršac indicated in Fig. 2, but also Veliko Gradište station
located over Danube river may contain very useful data.
Fig. 1. Principal met station locations in Serbia
The wind mast 40 m in height was installed at the
location Humka Nagula nearby village Dolovo (Fig. 2)
while 50 m tall wind tower is to be positioned at the
Zagajičko brdo site. In near future two additional wind
masts with the wind measuring system are planned to be
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