Substitution potential of wind energy in Egypt

被引：31

作者：

El-Sayed, MAH ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Cairo Univ, Elect Power & Machines Dept, Cairo, Egypt

来源：

ENERGY POLICY | 2002年 / 30卷 / 08期

关键词：

wind energy; environment; cost/benefit ratio of wind farms;

D O I：

10.1016/S0301-4215(02)00030-7

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

The amount of energy generated by conventional power plants is expected to decline in near future due to environmental concern and the possible penetration of renewable energy such as wind generation. Therefore, the evaluation of the substitution potential of wind energy is becoming an important task by generation planning of power systems. A new methodology for estimating the capacity credit due to wind generation is developed based on the convolution technique considering the statistical wind speed variations. Moreover, the economic impact of wind energy is assessed in the form of cost/benefit ratio to justify the substitution potential of such clean energy resource. The feasibility of the proposed approaches are illustrated using the planned 600 M W wind farm in Za'afarana, which would be integrated to the Egyptian unified power network. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：681 / 687

页数：7