Methodology for Practical Estimation of the Wind Resource for Low Power Applications

This article presents a methodology for the practical estimation of the usable wind resource in a site of interest for the assembly of low power wind turbines.The methodology includes the use of historical information in a time range of two years to compare it with the values of databases in the same period of time that a commercial software tool has and validate them through measurements of the resource in a site under study in that same time window to corroborate that the data provided by the software tool are consistent with those measured. Having verified the above, it is guaranteed that we can use the software tools to estimate practically the wind resource and the usable power in places of interest, since throughout the article it is shown that the measured and historical data are very close, therefore, for low power applications, it is a practical way to estimate the wind resource at any point of interest in El Salvador or the Central American region.