Kathmandu Alternative power and Energy Group: Our experience in promotion of low cost wind energy technology in Nepal

Wind Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-324

  Ghimire, Pramod ^a   Sharma, Ranjan ^b   Lamichhane, Chudamani ^c   Freere, Peter ^d   Sinha, Rakesh ^e   Acharya, Parash ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Think Global AS   (Norway)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e KAPEG Pvt Ltd   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GROUPS; FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS; KATHMANDU; LOW COSTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SMALL SCALE; WIND ENERGY; WIND ENERGY TECHNOLOGY;

WIND POWER;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COST; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; WIND POWER;

BAGMATI; KATHMANDU; NEPAL;

EID: 77954391595     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.34.3.313     Document Type: Article

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