Wind resource assessment in the state of Arizona: Inventory, capacity factor, and cost

Renewable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1453-1466

  Acker, Thomas L ^a   Williams, Susan K ^b   Duque, Earl P N ^a   Brummels, Grant ^b   Buechler, Jason ^a  

^a Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; Cost of energy; Wind energy; Wind energy assessment; Wind maps

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CAPACITY FACTOR; WIND ENERGY ASSESSMENT; WIND MAPS;

WIND POWER;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WIND POWER;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; GIS; INVENTORY; MAPPING METHOD; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY; WIND POWER;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847686300     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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