Subject:- Renewable Energy Sources

Topic:- Wind Energy

Difficulty:- High

Betz’s law indicates the maximum power that can be extract from the wind, independent of the designed of a wind turbine in open flow the law is derived from the principles of conversion of mass and energy from the wind stream .

According to be Betz’s law, no turbine can capture more than 16/27 of the kinetic energy wind the factor 16/27(0.593) is known as Betz’s Coefficient.