An analysis of wind power potential in Port Said, Egypt

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 6660-6667

  Lashin, Aref ^a,c,d   Shata, Ahmed ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Port Said University   (Egypt)

^c BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Air density; Corrected wind power; Distributions; Roughness factor; Weibull parameters

Indexed keywords

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER;

AIR DENSITY; DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROUGHNESS FACTOR; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND SPEED VARIATIONS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84866914418     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.08.012     Document Type: Review

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