Evaluation of wind energy potential and estimation of cost using wind energy turbines for electricity generation in north of Algeria

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 1245-1255

  Belabes, B ^a,b   Youcefi, A ^b   Guerri, O ^a   Djamai, M ^a   Kaabeche, A ^a  

^a CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D ORAN MOHAMED BOUDIAF   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Present Value Cost PVC; WAsP; Weibull distributions; Wind energy; Wind energy turbine

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; WIND POWER; WIND SPEED; WIND TURBINES;

ALGERIA; CAPACITY FACTORS; ELECTRICITY-GENERATION; ENERGY ESTIMATION; EVALUATION OF WIND ENERGY POTENTIALS; HIGH COSTS; PRESENT VALUE; PRESENT VALUE COST PRESENT VALUE COST METHOD; WIND ENERGY TURBINE;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84938153621     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.043     Document Type: Review

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