Terrain roughness

Wind prediction in urban environments

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 …

Improved resource assessment for small wind turbines in rural and urban areas

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 …