Techno-economical evaluation of wind energy potential and analysis of power generation from wind at Gharo, Sindh Pakistan

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 460-474

  Khahro, Shahnawaz Farhan ^a   Tabbassum, Kavita ^b   Mohammad Soomro, Amir ^a,c   Liao, Xiaozhong ^a   Alvi, Muhammad Bux ^d   Dong, Lei ^a   Manzoor, M Farhan ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SINDH AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c MEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^d THE ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Economic analysis; Most probable wind; Rayleigh distribution; Weibull distribution; Wind energy; Wind power density

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; TURBOGENERATORS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES; ECONOMICAL EVALUATION; ENERGY CHARACTERISTICS; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; STANDARD DEVIATION; WIND POWER DENSITY;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899636889     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.04.027     Document Type: Review

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