Technical possibility assessment of creating wind power station at Soltanieh zone of Zanjan province

Abstract

Due to increasing expansion of energy consumption and also the decrease 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<br />research investigates suitable possibility of exploiting wind energy to create wind power station<br />in Soltanieh zone of Zanajn province by considering technical cases. Some researches have been<br />carried out on possibility assessment, measurement and comparison of power density. In<br />technical possibility investigation, several turbines were investigated to calculate obtainable<br />annual energy capacity coefficient of each turbine. Then these were compared to select the best<br />type of turbine. According to the results, wind turbine owned by Vestas Company, model V100,<br />rated power of 1800 kW and capacity coefficient of 33.1% was selected as the best turbine.