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AB - energies Article Determining the Optimized Hub Height of Wind Turbine Using the Wind Resource Map of South Korea Jung-Tae Lee, Hyun-Goo Kim * , Yong-Heack Kang and Jin-Young Kim New and Renewable Energy Resource & Policy Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research, 152 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34129, Korea * Correspondence: hyungoo@kier.re.kr; Tel.: +82-42-860-3376 Received: 11 July 2019; Accepted: 29 July 2019; Published: 31 July 2019 Abstract: Although the size of the wind turbine has become larger to improve the economic feasibility of wind power generation, whether increases in rotor diameter and hub height always lead to the optimization of energy cost remains to be seen. This paper proposes an algorithm that calculates the optimized hub height to minimize the cost of energy (COE) using the regional wind profile database. The optimized hub height was determined by identifying the minimum COE after calculating the annual energy production (AEP) and cost increase, according to hub height increase, by using the wind profiles of the wind resource map in South Korea and drawing the COE curve. The optimized hub altitude was calculated as 75~80 m in the inland plain but as 60~70 m in onshore or mountain sites, where the wind profile 
TI - Determining the Optimized Hub Height of Wind Turbine Using the Wind Resource Map of South Korea
JF - Energies
DO - 10.3390/en12152949
DA - 2019-07-31
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/determining-the-optimized-hub-height-of-wind-turbine-using-the-wind-ylDFN560B6
DP - DeepDyve
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