Wind resource evaluation in six selected high altitude locations in Nigeria

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3273-3281

  Ohunakin, Olayinka S ^a  

^a Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Mean wind speeds; Nigeria; Power density; Weibull distributions

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ENERGY VARIATIONS; HIGH ALTITUDE; MEAN WIND SPEED; MINIMUM VALUE; NIGERIA; POWER DENSITIES; TURBINE INSTALLATION; WEIBULL; WEIBULL ANALYSIS; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT; WIND RESOURCES; WIND SPEED DATA; WIND TURBINE TOWERS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ALTITUDE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GEOPOLITICS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

NIGERIA;

EID: 79960152560     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.04.026     Document Type: Article

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