Potential and economic viability of standalone hybrid systems for a rural community of Sokoto, North-west Nigeria

Frontiers in Energy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 145-159

  Ohijeagbon, O D ^a   Ajayi, Oluseyi O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^b Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

clean energy; cost per kilowatt hour; photovoltaic (PV) power; solarwind hybrid; wind power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901435043     PISSN: 20951701     EISSN: 20951698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11708-014-0304-z     Document Type: Article

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