Wind resource estimation and wind park design in El-Kef region, Tunisia

Energy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 348-357

  Abbes, Mohamed ^a   Belhadj, Jamel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Annual energy production; Life cycle costing; Micro siting; Weibull distribution; Wind resource estimation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PROFITABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ANNUAL ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; LIFE CYCLE COSTING; MICRO-SITING; WEIBULL; WIND RESOURCE ESTIMATION;

WIND POWER;

DATA ACQUISITION; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; POWER GENERATION; PRODUCTION COST; PROFITABILITY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND PROFILE; WIND TURBINE;

KEF; TUNISIA;

EID: 84859108714     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.01.061     Document Type: Article

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