The intention of this work is to develop a new insurance product which covers wind farm investors against losses of production resulting from too low or too high wind speeds. Wind turbines start to produce energy at wind speeds of about 2 m/s to 3 m/s and they have to be stopped for very high wind speeds (20 m/s - 34 m/s depending on the machine type) in order to avoid damages. After the introduction - in the second chapter - at first, an overview of the current state of the generation of electrical energy through wind in Germany is given, whereat, amongst others, the technology of wind energy plants is outlined. Furthermore, the structure of the still to be developed insurance product is described and two possible payoff profiles are introduced. In the following chapter, daily mean wind speed time series of several cities are regarded. With the aid of linear regression, missing data points are replaced so that the complete time series are able to be used for a variety of analyses. To calculate a fair risk price for the insurance product, two modelling approaches are considered in the proximate chapter: first, a distribution function is fitted to the historical wind speeds and after this, an autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model is estimated which refers to the path of the wind speeds over time. With the aid of these models, risk prices according to the daily mean wind speed data are calculated. In the next chapter, hourly mean wind speed time series are analysed with the analogue modelling approaches. Afterwards, the risk prices based on hourly mean wind speeds are compared with the ones based on daily mean wind speed data. Finally, problems during the modelling process are illustrated, the practical implementation is elucidated, and the payouts of the insurance product according to the wind speeds of the last years are visualized.
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The intention of this work is to develop a new insurance product which covers wind farm investors against losses of production resulting from too low or too high wind speeds. Wind turbines start to produce energy at wind speeds of about 2 m/s to 3 m/s and they have to be stopped for very high wind speeds (20 m/s - 34 m/s depending on the machine type) in order to avoid damages. After the introduction - in the second chapter - at first, an overview of the current state of the generation of electr...
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