Wind energy potential analysis of Bursa provincecoastal region

Due to the population growth and technology development, the need for energy is growing rapidly. Increased energy demand, environmental pollution and increase in greenhouse gas emissions cause to growing in the use of renewable energy sources. Wind energy is one of the most used renewable energy sources in the world. In 2007, the power of wind energy in our country was 146.3 MW, while in 2017 this value reached 6483.9 MW. Thanks to wind energy investments, there has been a continuous increase in wind energy installed power. For investments to be economically suitable, wind energy potential analysis should be performed in areas where the wind power plant will be established. In this study, Turkey and the world energy outlook was examined and information about wind energy and wind energy potential analysis are given. Additionally basic energy equations of wind energy, effects of wind turbine rotor diameters on wind energy, effects of wind speed on wind energy, wind speed changes depending on height are given. There are many methods for wind energy potential analysis studies. Direct data analysis methods and statistical analyses are methods of wind energy potential analysis. The most widely used methods are the Weibull and Rayleigh distribution functions, which are statistical analysis methods. The wind energy potential analysis was carried out with the help of WindSim software which is based on CFD. The coast line of Bursa province was analysed individually for the districts of Gemlik, Karacabey and Mudanya. Annual energy production values, average wind speed maps, wind power density maps, roughness maps were created for districts. The climatology data for the hourly wind speed and wind direction information obtained from the General Directorate of Meteorology was used for the districts to be analysed. Climatology data are transferred into the WindSim program and analysed. As a result of the analysis, annual energy productions for Gemlik, Karacabey and Mudanya are 26.5 GWh, 8.8 GWh and 22.4 GWh respectively. Capacity factors were 30.8% and 26.4% respectively, Gemlik and Mudanya are regions where wind energy potential is the highest.