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Chapter 5—Electrical Network 5–47<br />

Table 5.2 Theoretical Energy Production of MOD-0<br />

Located at Dodge City (kWh/m 2 )<br />

Standard<br />

1950 1952 1953 Mean Deviation<br />

Jan. 31.6 34.1 40.2 36.3 3.85<br />

Feb. 29.5 35.0 41.8 37.5 3.60<br />

Mar. 38.5 41.0 42.8 41.9 3.79<br />

Apr. 36.0 39.4 43.1 42.3 4.41<br />

May 37.4 33.9 44.3 40.3 4.50<br />

Jun. 38.9 43.5 50.5 39.7 6.72<br />

Jul. 26.8 41.5 38.2 35.3 6.40<br />

Aug. 22.9 36.4 37.3 34.3 6.55<br />

Sep. 24.3 37.1 37.2 37.2 4.58<br />

Oct. 31.3 31.1 41.0 36.7 4.57<br />

Nov. 28.2 36.4 37.9 35.1 5.39<br />

Dec. 22.2 30.5 39.7 37.8 6.27<br />

367.7 440.1 493.8 454.4 39.97<br />

It would appear from the limited data that effective capacities of wind turbines may vary<br />

from 10 to 60 percent for initial penetrations and from 5 to 45 percent at 5 percent penetration.<br />

Hopefully, wind diversity will raise the lower limit to at least 15 or 20 percent. We conclude,<br />

therefore, that wind turbines do have an effective capacity and that any complete cost analysis<br />

should include a capacity credit for the wind machines as well as a fuel savings credit.<br />

Figure 25: Wind power plant effective capacity versus penetration.<br />

The actual capacity displaced, D c , depends on the effective capacities of both the wind<br />

Wind Energy Systems by Dr. Gary L. Johnson November 21, 2001

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