Technical and Economic Analysis of Wind Turbine System for Isolated Location at Adrar in Algeria

this paper presents a statistical analysis of wind characteristics and estimating of unite cost for small wind turbine at Adrar situated in Algeria, using Weibull distribution function. The wind energy production using the economic evaluation of Whisper 200 wind turbine taking into account the geographical and climatic condition for this location, and the variation of air density as a function of temperature, to start processing and simulation of the collected data (wind and temperature) every 3 hours over five years, after the estimation of wind energy, the economic evaluation was carried.The annual shape parameter k value equal to 2.69, while the annual scale parameter C and the annual average wind speed are 7.5m/s and 6.6m/s respectively, the value of the shape parameter k shows that the distribution is stable, and the value of the scale parameter C is important; the present values cost equal to 882.83$ and the maintenance cost equal to 396.28$, while the per kWh cost for project are 0.241$/kWh.

I. Introduction

Wind is a renewable source of energy, the study of the wind potential is important in order to locate the site of settlements for the future wind development zone, the estimate of the wind potential in Algeria has shown that, the Mediterranean region characterized by a low wind speed, but the Sahara region is windy [1].