Wind to power a new city in Oman

Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1579-1586

  Albadi, M H ^a   El Saadany, E F ^a   Albadi, H A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Meteorological Department of Muscat International Airport   (Oman)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; Power economics; Sustainable development; Weibull distribution; Wind power

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; GAS INDUSTRY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; NATURAL GAS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

ANNUAL AVERAGE; ANNUAL CAPACITY; CAPACITY FACTOR; CAPITAL COSTS; COST OF ELECTRICITY; DISCOUNT RATES; FEED-IN TARIFF; GENERATION SYSTEMS; MEAN WIND SPEED; NATURAL GAS PRICE; POWER CURVES; POWER ECONOMICS; TECHNO-ECONOMIC EVALUATION; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND POWER PROJECTS; WIND PROFILES; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND POWER; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 69349096547     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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