Economic possibility assessment of creating wind power stations at Soltanieh zone of Zanjan province

Abstract

Due to increasingly expansion of energy consumption and also decreasing and tendency towards<br />ending fossil energy reserves, the current energy cycle needs to use alternative energy specially<br />wind energy, because it's considerably cheaper than other recycling sources. The present research<br />investigates possibility of creating wind Power Station economically at Soltanieh zone of Zanajn<br />province regarding economical perspectives. Cost of investment and other costs and also<br />environmental effects, were assessed economically by considering annual obtained energy rate.<br />Several scenarios were investigated; complete price of energy in every kW per hour at each<br />scenario was calculated and compared with other sources of electricity energy generation<br />especially fossil power stations. By considering obtained results, it's expected that creating wind<br />power station at Soltanieh zone has yielded economical benefits.