Modeling the wind speed in North Morocco

The change of the wind speed is strictly related to several natural factors such as local topographical and the ground cover variations, then any adjustment has to take into account the statistical variation for each specific region under study. Unlike the Weibull distribution, which is most used in wind speed modeling, we investigate two alternative distribution functions for wind speed by using the extreme value theory. The generalized Champernowne distribution function and the mixture Log-normal-Pareto distribution function are considered. We demonstrate that the proper generalized extreme value distribution gives a good fit for wind speed in the North Moroccan. In order to validate the models, a comparison of the produced aggregate wind energy in the aeolian wind turbine was being established. The empirical study shows that the generalized extreme value distribution reflects better the intensity of the wind power energy.