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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to answer the question: Are the Łódź Hills useful for electrical energy production from wind energy or not? Due to access to short-term data related to wind measurements (the period of 2008 and 2009) from a local meteorological station, the measure -correlate -predict approach have been applied. Long-term (1979Long-term ( -2016 reference data were obtained from ECWMF ERA-40 Reanalysis. Artificial neural networks were used to calculate predicted wind speed. The obtained average wind speed and wind power density was 4.21 ms -1 and 70 Wm -1 , respectively, at 10 m above ground level (5.51 ms -1 , 170 Wm -1 at 50 m). From the point of view of Polish wind conditions, Łódź Hills may be considered useful for wind power engineering.