Economic modeling of site-specific optimum wind turbine for electrification studies

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 347-353, Issue , 2012, Pages 1973-1986

  Bawah, Umar ^a   Addoweesh, Khaled E ^a   Eltamaly, Ali M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Capital cost; Cost of energy; Economic selection; Energy produced; Rotor diameter; Wind turbine rating

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL COST; CAPITAL COSTS; DECISION MAKERS; ECONOMIC MODELING; ENERGY PRODUCED; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; HUB HEIGHT; INPUT DATAS; POWER SOURCES; ROTOR DIAMETER; SITE-SPECIFIC; TURBINE PARAMETERS; TURBINE POWER; WIND DATA; WIND REGIME;

COSTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; INVESTMENTS; RATING; ROTORS (WINDINGS); SITE SELECTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WIND POWER;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 80155134837     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.347-353.1973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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