Evaluation on Comprehensive Benefit of Wind Power
Generation and Utilization of Wind Energy
Ying Zuo
Department ofEconomics and Management
North China Electric Power University
Baoding, China
zuoyinghbdldx@126.com
Abstract-In recent years, with the excessive consumption of
conventional energy, the contradiction between supplication and
demand and the irrational structure of China's energy as well as
the environmental pollution have become increasingly apparent.
It has become the key to sustainable development to reduce the
consumption of traditional energy and to
development and utilization of renewable energy.
China has begun to enhance the development and investment on
new clean energy and renewable energy. Wind energy is an
inexhaustible supply of renewable energy and it has no pollution.
To do great efforts to develop wind energy resources is also
considered to be a very effective measure to
environment which causes more and more attention. In China,
the development of wind energy has become an effective way to
alleviate the shortage of energy and curb the environmental
degradation. As an important follow-up energy source, wind
power shows a good prospect for development. Because of the
pollution-free, short construction cycle, investment flexibility
and small footprint, wind power has good
environmental benefit. Previously, our country did not make use
of the wind energy. It not only wasted a valuable resource, but
also had a bad impact on the ecological environment. First, this
article analyzes the development situation and trend of China's
wind power. Then, using the analytic hierarchy process and
fuzzy comprehensive evaluation mathematical
evaluate the benefit of wind power generation, including the
economic benefit, social benefit and environmental benefit. The
result proves that the social and environmental benefit of wind
power is very good and the comprehensive benefit is good.
Finally, draw the conclusion that the use of wind energy has a
good prospect for development. China should strengthen the use
of wind energy and it will bring great benefit. It can not only
help protect the environment, but also ensure the sustainable
development of national energy.
Keywords-wind; wind power generation; comprehensive benefit
I INTRODUCTION
In today's world, energy issue has become a global issue
restricting the development of socio-economic. To reduce the
consumption of traditional energy and enhance the
development of renewable energy is the key to sustainable
development. Resources and environment are the basic
conditions for human survival and development. In recent
decades,as the world's population is growing,the consumption
of traditional energy sources has been growing exponentially.
Conventional energy (coal, oil, etc.) generates large amounts
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of greenhouse gases from electricity generation, leading to the
problem of environmental pollution and ecological
deterioration of the environment. The living environment is
deteriorating and it has a serious impact on human activities,
including economic,cultural and social activities. So that it has
enhance the attracted worldwide attention. Therefore, the countries in the
Therefore,
world have started to strengthen the development and
utilization of renewable and clean energy, including solar,
wind and biomass [I]. In recent years, many researchers have
proved that the benefit of using wind power is very impressive.
protect the
China is an energy consuming country and it has abundant
wind energy resources. Therefore, making full use of wind
energy resources is a wise choice. This paper uses the analytic
hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation
mathematical principle to analyze the comprehensive benefit
of wind power. It proves that developing wind energy
resources vigorously in China is very promising, which can
social and also be an effective measure to protect the environment.
II THE DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION SITUATION OF
WIND ENERGY IN CHINA
A. The Distribution Situation of China's Wind Energy
principle to Compared with other countries, China is one of the
countries that have rich wind energy resources. Rich areas are
mainly concentrated in two regions, including the three
northern regions (northeast, north, northwest) and the region
along the coast and its islands Strip. The three northern regions
are flat and great, which has convenient transportation. Also,
the wind speed increases rapidly with the height and the wind
energy resources is very rich. The effective number of hours of
available wind energy in the region along the coast and its
islands Strip is about 7000 to 8000. In summer and autumn, it
is generally affected by tropical cyclones and every typhoon
can bring abundant wind energy resources [2]. From the sense
of wind energy utilization, the two strong winds energy areas
basically spread to the vast majority of provinces in China. So
it is possible for the vast majority of provinces in China to use
the wind energy. Therefore, the region of wind energy
available in China is very broad, which fully displays the
superiority of wind energy utilization and makes up for the
inadequacies of other energy resources. In recent years,
China's power grid coverage has been greatly improved and
many areas with abundant wind energy resources have been
placed under the network coverage.
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B. The Utilization Situation o{ China's Wind Energy atmospheric environment [4]. C02 released by different
1) As the wind energy attracts more and more attention energy sources are shown in Table 1:
from countries around the world, China's wind power industry
Table 1. CO2 RELEASED BY DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES
also keeps a fast development. In the past few years, China's
wind power new capacity has reached a very high level and Power
The carbon dioxide prodnced by the different power
generation
the annual growth rate also maintained rapid growth. In 2009, generation stage
technologies
the growth rate of installed wind power capacity is about 1.8 Conventional
Fuel Total
percent, accounting for 1 10 percent of the country's total coal-fired power Building Running
extraction numbers
generation
installed generating capacity. In 20 10, China's wind power
has a leap of development. Its installed capacity growth rate is Fuel power
1 1 962 964
generation
2.3 percent, accounting for 1 17 percent of the total installed
power generation capacity [3]. Rates of accumulated installed Natural gas fuel
for power 0 0 726 726
capacity of wind power and annual growth rates of new wind
generation
power installed capacity of the country are shown in Figure 1
Ocean thermal
and Figure 2 shows: 0 0 484 484
energy

140 Geothermal steam

to generate 0 4 400 404
120 electricity

100 / "'-
80 / -+- Annual growth rate of
Wind power 0 7 0 7

60 I installed capacity of
wind power
40 / 3) Thus, wind power has great significance for the
20 .--.-
/ protection of environment and the large-scale development of
wind power has become an inevitable trend. At present, the
0 development of wind power in China is rapid, which is quite
" ,,o rS'- '-J ic '\ "o c, r;,
f f substantial. Keeping wind power a fast and stable
development, we must do evaluation on its comprehensive
benefit, which is also the key to improve the market
Figure I. The total proportion of the installed capacity of wind power in
competitiveness of wind power.
the country's total installed generating capacity

III EVALUATION ON COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OF WIND

POWER
2.5
A. Building the Index System
2 J The Analytic Hierarchy Process is to make the specific
---- The total proportion
issue into a hierarchy of model that is a complex problem is
1.5 / ofthe installed
capacity of wind
decomposed into many elements. These elements are divided
into several groups according to their characteristics to form
1 / power in the
country's total different levels. The next level of elements are guided the
installed generating dominant elements. These levels can basically be divided into:
0.5 ! the target layer, rule layer and scheme layer. A hierarchy is

very important to solve the problem in the study, which
0 determines the final ability to get good results [5]. If y contains
" 1>< ic x, x is dominated by y, namely y dominates x. An ordered set
"CS\::) "CS\::) cs\::) cs\::)"0
'V 'V 'V S,if each element x, YES ,it is called the overall ordered set.
In a hierarchical structure,x+ represents the dominant elements
Figure 2. Annual growth rate of installed capacity of wind power and the x represents the dominated elements.
2) The utilization of wind power has great benefit to
protect the environment and it will become a trend. Compared { x+ = l
(y x dominates y,YE E)
to other power generation technologies, particularly the
x (y I y dominates x,YE E)
= ( 1)
coal-fired power, wind power has absolute environmental
According to the economic, social and environmental
advantages. Wind power only emits a small amount of C02 in
benefit of wind power projects,the following index system can
its construction, which is negligible for the global carbon be created:
dioxide emissions. Therefore, the development and utilization
of wind power has a very large positive effect to protect the

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 C.I.= (Am" -n) (n-l)/ (4)
Comprehensive
benefit
A,m = ((AW))W,)In (5)

C.R. = C.I R.I. ./ (6)

I I 4) According to the above judgment matrix and formula
of calculating the weight, we can calculate the index weights
Economic Environmental of wind power generation benefit (shown in Table 2) and the
Social benefit
benefit benefit draw index weight vector.

Table 2. TABLE 2 T HE WEIGHTS OF EACH INDEX

I I I
J- J- J- J- I Name W AW AW/W
mprov(
The cos ment of Soot
mprove Saving Profit on sales 0. 15 146 0.470714 3. 107847
of the emissio
Profit ment of Providi tradition
power econom n
on sales the life ngjobs al
generati ic reductio The cost of power generations 0.2 18443 0.678886 2. 107847
quality energy
on structur n

'---- - '---- '---- '---- '----

e
Improvement of the economic structure 0.630098 1.958247 4. 107847

Figure 3. The index system Improvement of the life quality 0.666667 1.333333 1.9 16744

B. Calculating the Weights of Index

Providing jobs 0.333333 0.666667 2.034487
1) To judge the relative importance of the subordinate
elements according to the rule layer index and determine
which of these two elements is more important, then give the Soot emission reduction 0.333333 0.666667 2.492 1 1 1

appropriate measure and builds judgment matrix[6].

Depending on the indicators, importance of the economic,
Saving traditional energy 0.666667 1.333333 2.000455
social and environmental benefit of wind power,the following
matrix can be constructed:
= ( 0.15146 )
l 12 :;: l
0.218443 0.630098

= ( 0.66 0.33 )
A, TV, = 0.33 0.67 )
(
C:/2 )
C. Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation
A2

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Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is to use the fuzzy theory
to establish the fuzzy matrix and do the comprehensive

C J
A3 = system designed in the evaluation process of wind power
2) At present, the commonly used method of weight
calculation is the value method. There are n elements, we has
gotten judgment matrix under the criteria B. We can calculate
the weight and the ranking of the weights of the elements.
evaluation to come to the evaluation results. Determine the
factors of objects under evaluation. According to the index
generation efficiency, we can draw evaluation factors of the
benefits of wind power generation; give the judge set.
Evaluation set can be set as excellent,good,fair,and poor; get
the evaluation matrix. Use the fuzzy statistical method to

"
identify the affiliation of each index. That is, we can get the
That is, score through the experts, experience [7]. The result is shown
- in Table 3:
w.
I = n TI a IJ
(2)

w. =w
I I
!
L...J
i=l
w
I
(3)

3) We can do the consistency test of a random matrix as

follows:

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 are non-polluting and clean and it is very conducive to
environmental protection. In China, the wind energy has
Table 3. T HE RESULTS OF THE EXPERTS SCORING become the focus development of the new energy because of
its advantages, such as clean, pollution-free and so on. The
amount of China's wind energy resources available is
Level indicators Two indicators Excellent Good In Poor equivalent to twice the power capacity in the early 1990s.
Obviously, wind energy is a clean energy which can not be
ignored and it has a very large alternative [8].

Profit on sales 3 5 2 0 At present, the technology of China's wind power is quite

mature and the market competitiveness is also rising. This
article also uses the analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy
The cost of
comprehensive evaluation theory to evaluate the overall
Economic benefit power 2 4 3 1 benefit of wind power. There is good prospect for the
generation development of the wind power. In the future, China should
abandon the development model of high consumption and
Improvement of
investment and reduce the consumption of traditional energy
the economic 5 3 2 0 sources. We should also vigorously promote the use of clean
structure energy,especially the use of wind energy resources,in order to
promote stable and high-speed development.
Improvement of 6 3 1 0 REFERENCES
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R =
[0.0.32 0.0.45 0.2 0.1 j
OJ
o.o
R
=( 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.0
0.4 0.4 0.2 0.0
)
0.5 0.3 0.2 0.0
R
, (0.0.65 0.4 0.0.11 0)0
=

OJ

Based on the weights of each indicator and evaluation

matrix, we calculate the economic, social and environmental
benefit. They are respectively 0.4,0.53,0.57. So the social and
environmental benefit is excellent and the economic benefit is
good. The comprehensive benefit is good.

IV CONCLUTION

Traditional energy sources (coal, oil, gas) on Earth have

gradually tended to dry up for hundreds of years,consumption.
Therefore, the utilization of new and renewable energy has
become the consensus of the world. Opposed to traditional
non-renewable energy, wind energy is a renewable energy
source which is also a kind of clean energy. Its notable features

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