Abstract: The wind farm sitting is the primary work in the construction of wind-electric power plant, it includes macro and micro sitting. Macro sitting is the major work at the stage of prophase planning which need to evaluate the wind energy resource by using the data collected from local weather stations and consider the power network, transportation, geology etc. While micro sitting is the main work at the stage of design, at this stage the site of every unit will be fixed according to the distribution map of wind energy resource and correlative restrictive conditions so that the demand of the client and the relevant departments can be satisfied and the better economic and social benefit of the wind farm can be gained. In this paper the sitting process was introduced and the suggestions were proposed based on one coastal wind farm.

Key words: wind farm sitting, micro-sitting, distribution map of wind energy resource, unit layout, noise calculation