Techno-economic evaluation of wind energy in southwest Nigeria

Frontiers in Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 366-378

  Adaramola, Muyiwa S ^a   Oyewola, Olarenwaju M ^b   Ohunakin, Olayinka S ^c   Dinrifo, Rufus R ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c Covenant University ^*  (Nigeria)

^d Lagos State Polytechnic   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

mean wind speed; Nigeria; southwest geopolitical region; techno economic analysis; Weibull distributions; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONVERSION; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

DATA SET; HUB HEIGHT; MEAN WIND SPEED; NIGERIA; SOUTHWEST GEOPOLITICAL REGION; SOUTHWEST NIGERIA; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; TECHNO-ECONOMIC EVALUATION; WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL; WIND SPEED DATA;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84870680969     PISSN: 20951701     EISSN: 20951698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11708-012-0205-y     Document Type: Article

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