Wind power potential assessment for seven buoys data collection stations in Aegean Sea using Weibull distribution function

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bagiorgas, Haralambos S ^a   Mihalakakou, Giouli ^a   Rehman, Shafiqur ^b,c   Al Hadhrami, Luai M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; ANNUAL MEAN; DATA COLLECTION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; MEAN VALUES; MEAN WIND SPEED; POWER CHARACTERISTIC; POWER POTENTIAL; SCALE PARAMETER; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WEIBULL SHAPE; WIND ENERGY DENSITY; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION; WINTER TIME;

BUOYS; DATA ACQUISITION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84857879300     PISSN: 19417012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3688030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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