Preliminary Analysis of Wind Resources and Wind Energy Reserves in the off-Shore Region of Guangdong Province

To analyze the wind power and develop tools for the off-shore wind farm siting in the coastal region of Guangdong with water depth 30~50m, wind data from satellites, the CCMP analysis, Lidars, wind towers, buoys, a high-resolution numerical model are used to calculate wind resources and wind energy reserves. Overall, the northeastern wind with speed above 8m/s is prevailing in Autumn and Winter and the southern wind with low speed is prevailing in Spring and Summer. The eastern part of the off-shore region of Guangdong province is better for wind farm siting than the western region.