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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/INREC.2010.5462587
