DocumentCode
2342724
Title
Feasibility study of establishing a wind farm to generate electricity in Saudi Arabia
Author
Al-Ammar, Essam ; Al-Yousef, Badr
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
fYear
2010
fDate
21-24 March 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
Wind farms have been built all over the world, and successfully proven as one of the important substitutes of alternative energy. Nowadays, there have been some series ideas in Saudi Arabia to find out energy solutions. This research aims to study the feasibility of design and construction of wind farms in Saudi Arabia from the geographic, economic and technical view.
Keywords
wind power plants; Saudi Arabia; alternative energy; electricity generation; energy solutions; wind farm; Earth; Isolation technology; Nuclear power generation; Petroleum; Power demand; Power generation; Power generation economics; Renewable energy resources; Wind energy generation; Wind farms; Feasibility; Saudi Arabia; Study; Wind;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nuclear & Renewable Energy Conference (INREC), 2010 1st International
Conference_Location
Amman
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5213-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-5214-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/INREC.2010.5462587
Filename
5462587
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