Comparison of Three Methods for Wind Turbine Capacity Factor Estimation

Table 5

Comparison of 2008 monthly capacity factors.

	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
CFQE	0.5922	0.5341	0.4691	0.4249	0.3225	0.3546	0.343	0.3464	0.3324	0.2437	0.3525	0.5411
CFAN	0.5908	0.5302	0.4643	0.4194	0.3165	0.3485	0.3372	0.3405	0.3265	0.2376	0.3465	0.5398
CFAP	0.6425	0.5598	0.4834	0.4366	0.3305	0.3633	0.3555	0.3586	0.3399	0.2603	0.3648	0.5988