Estimation of Wind Power Probability Density Distribution Functions Parameters By Using Meta-Heuristic Algorithms.

Wind energy is a very popular renewable energy resource and is used as an energy source global because of its benefits of being environmentally friendly, renewable and having great reserves. The probability density distribution of wind speed can be used to estimate wind power density. In this study, Weibull and Rayleigh density distributions were employed to analytically eliminate the presumption that the total wind power is described by a single random variant and to calculate the wind power probability density distribution. In the modeling of complex high-dimensional stochastic wind power, although it can be solved with various mathematical approaches, since there are generally large-scale power systems containing many generators, buses, planning periods and non-linear stochastic variables, it is quite leisurely in searching for the optimum point and most of the time the solutions are far from reality. Consequently, heuristic methods have now substituted classical mathematical methods in obtaining wind parameters. Therefore, the advantage of heuristic methods compared to classical methods is that they can produce efficient solutions in a shorter time and with greater precision. Therefore, in this study, the main metaheuristic algorithms Symbiosis Organisms Search (SOS) and Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithms and the classical statistical methods Energy Pattern Factor and Maximum Likelihood Method were employed to investigate the accuracy of wind power parameter calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]