Research Article

Uncertainty-Based Capacity Factors of Operational Wind Turbines Using the Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) Method

Table 2

The number of measured capacity factors within the 50% and 90% confidence intervals of using the MC-based and GLUE-based approaches for the 15 scenario testing cases.

ScenarioMC-basedGLUE-based
CountCountCountCount

January0.7770.91110.5330.95440.6390.87630.4840.9935
February0.5750.77710.3610.86240.3920.61530.3020.9105
March0.5510.65100.4480.72040.3660.50730.2920.6814
April0.4330.52820.3500.59140.2910.40720.2030.4743
May0.3050.43710.1930.51940.1280.27220.0550.3645
June0.2550.40710.1580.51030.0920.20340.0520.3455
July0.2160.36910.1120.46940.0560.13040.0340.2775
August0.1930.31120.1070.38230.0440.19230.0220.2584
September0.3980.50900.3200.58430.2260.31320.1730.3715
October0.7330.86340.5870.91550.5880.72810.4260.8084
November0.6900.83530.5170.90130.5650.78220.4840.9184
December0.7950.90200.6760.94130.5680.76130.4550.9384
Strong-wind0.7230.79110.6670.82620.5380.67230.4580.7714
Weak-wind0.3560.39600.3260.42300.1780.25940.1330.3045
One-year0.5500.58000.5260.60000.3590.44520.3010.5004