Assessment of wind energy potential for selecting wind turbines: An application to Thailand

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-26

  Quan, Pham ^a   Leephakpreeda, Thananchai ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Economic analysis; Thailand; Wind analysis; Wind energy; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FINANCE; WIND; WIND POWER;

ANNUAL ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FINANCIAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; THAILAND; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND ENERGY ASSESSMENT;

WIND TURBINES;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY PLANNING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

THAILAND;

EID: 84930946378     PISSN: 22131388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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