Assessment of Regional Wind Energy Resources Over the Ukraine

Purpose of the paper is to provide preliminary assessment of wind resources for different regions of Ukraine. Investigation is based on thirty-minute wind observations collected through an 8-year period (2001 to 2008) for seven airports of Ukraine.By applying of probabilistic analysis techniques to wind data series, different temporal variations of wind speed and direction are derived. The statistic characteristics obtained were compared with the correspondent values provided for 1936-1960 and 1961-1990 periods and site-related temporal changeability is determined.