Paper Title
Studying the Renewable Energy Resource (Wind) Characteristics and Shear Factors for Plain (Akal), Complex (Jagmin) and Coastal (Lamba) Sites in India by Different Methods

Abstract
Wind power generation is largely driven by local wind conditions. Wind speed, rotor swept area and air density play vital role in wind power generation as the wind power is directly proportional to these parameters. Increasingly with prevailing wind conditions and lower wind speed sites being available the wind turbine generator manufacturers are coming up with new class wind turbine generators. These new class wind turbine generators are having relatively higher hub heights and greater rotor diameters as compared to previous versions to capture winds prevailing at higher heights which helps in enhancing the energy yield from such windy sites. Primitively, at most of the site locations, wind study is performed by thewind turbine equivalent prevailing height wind masts and so some of the site locations remain unexplored with new wind turbine class heights. While the wind measurement campaign takes one-year time duration, most of the sites plant load factor and energy yield estimation for such new class wind turbine generatorsis done by extrapolating the wind speeds to the new heights for which the wind shear factor plays a greater role. This experimental study gives detailed insight on the wind shear factors for Akal, Jagmin and Lamba i.e. Plain, Complex and Coastal terrain respectively in India. The wind shear factors and their relations are studied with the help of Power law and Logarithmic law. Further the wind speeds calculated by Power law and the Logarithmic law is validated with real time data for studying and interpreting the results. The real-time wind data taken from the wind meteorological masts for the duration of one year. Keywords - Wind Power, Wind Turbine, Plant Load Factor, Shear Factor, Power Law Index, Logarithmic Law Index