Prospect of wind energy utilization in Saudi Arabia: A review

被引：27

作者：

Allhibi, Hamed ^{[1
]}

Chowdhury, Harun ^{[1
]}

Zaid, Mohamed ^{[1
]}

Loganathan, Bavin ^{[1
]}

Alam, Firoz ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] RMIT Univ, Sch Engn, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia

来源：

2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY AND POWER (ICEP2018) | 2019年 / 160卷

关键词：

Renewable energy; wind energy; wind turbine; Saudi Arabia; KSA; Saudi Vision 2030;

D O I：

10.1016/j.egypro.2019.02.184

中图分类号：

TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];

学科分类号：

0807 ; 0820 ;

摘要：

In Saudi Arabia, the current production of electric power is mainly relying on crude oil which causes a high percentage of carbon dioxide emissions and no power is generated from any renewable sources. However, recently Saudi Government has announced a development plan 'The Saudi Vision 2030' where the target is 20% of the production of power from the renewable sources mainly from solar and wind. Like other countries e.g., China, India, US and UK that produce a significant amount of their electric power from renewable sources. Saudi Arabia has a vast land area where there is a plenty of prospect to install renewable power plants (solar and wind farm) to generate a significant amount of electric power to meet their 2030 target. This paper analyses past 10 years wind data in various location of Saudi Arabia to investigate the feasibility to generate power. This study also recommends the potential locations that are suitable for wind power generation including suggestions of the wind turbine specifications. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

引用

页码：746 / 751

页数：6

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