Performance of the High Solidity Wind Turbines in Low Wind Potential Sites of Sri Lanka

Considering the wind potential in Sri Lanka, some sites have been identified as of low wind-potential. Grid-connected wind turbines have higher flexibility to be installed at good wind potential sites to obtain best performance. However, since off-grid wind turbines are used to provide power to fulfil the local energy requirement in the rural areas, they are not installed always at good wind-potential places but at sites in the vicinity of the energy requirement. Therefore, in certain instances, off-grid wind turbines must be designed to extract energy from low wind-potential sites to fulfil the energy requirement. The main objective of this study was to develop a suitable wind turbine generator (WTG) for low wind potential areas in Sri Lanka