Examining wind quality and wind power prospects on Fiji Islands

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 536-540

  Kumar, Ajal ^a   Prasad, Shivneel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; NASA; Power density; Vergnet 275 kW

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; CAPACITY FACTOR; CAPACITY FACTORS; DATA BASE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIJI ISLANDS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; POWER DENSITIES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SITE-SPECIFIC; WIND DATA; WIND RESOURCES; WIND SPEED;

NASA; TURBINES; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND POWER;

DATABASE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

FIJI;

EID: 71549127437     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.07.021     Document Type: Article

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