Techno-economic analysis of wind power generation for selected locations in Jordan

Renewable Energy

Volumn 101, Issue , 2017, Pages 1369-1378

  Khraiwish Dalabeeh, Ali S ^a  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; Economics of wind power; Weibull distribution; Wind energy; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; LOCATION; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; TURBOGENERATORS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CAPACITY FACTORS; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; SIMULATION MODEL; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; UNIT COST OF ELECTRICITY; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND ENERGY SOURCES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; MODEL TEST; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

JORDAN;

EID: 84991744578     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.10.003     Document Type: Article

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