**4. Discussion**

Having identified some technical barriers that hinders even the consideration of wind generation during the design process of REDPS, a technical methodology to cope with these barriers derived from the inclusion of small wind turbines in hybrid microgrids has been suggested. The target configuration has been established on inverter-based systems, with the possibility to include wind turbines of up to 100 kW (SWT) based on medium or long term (electrochemical) storage, with optional presence of solar PV generation which are very common nowadays.

With this target in mind, these differences have been focused on the wind resource characterization and on the description of existing technology, i.e., the small wind turbines. In relation to wind resource characterization, due to the need of expressing wind temporal variability (in a hour time frame, at least) and also due to the uncommon existing measuring campaign, a methodology to estimate the wind resource characterization from existing data bases and tools has been introduced. On the other hand, some description has been given for SWT technology in order to assure quality and expected performance of this component. In this manner, the system may be optimized (HOMER Pro software has been proposed for this) and necessary information is prepared in relation to the decision of moving forward with wind installation or rejection based on well-founded analysis and not based on myths relative to SWT.
