Following the growth of wind sector and the scarcity of available land, the market share of onshore wind energy installation on complex terrain is expected to increase. Wind resource assessment is a crucial process for the successful development of a …
Can small wind energy systems contribute to urban sustainable development in the Brussels Capital Region? To answer this question, we first performed wind measurements on potentially interesting sites selected based on their location, surrounding …
1 Introduction In Flanders there are currently about 200 large windturbines (between 0.5 and 5 MW) installed. The number of small wind turbines (less than 100 kW) is roughly four times less, despite the much lower investment cost. It appears that the …
1 Introduction A major challenge in numerical siting studies over complex terrain is getting the atmospheric boundary layer right [1]. This boundary layer can be con- structed in two ways: setting a logarithmic wind profile at the inlet boundary, or …