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Wind energy in Egypt : Economic feasibility for North Eastern Cairo /

Yasmina Abdellatif Hamouda

Wind energy in Egypt : Economic feasibility for North Eastern Cairo / Yasmina Abdellatif Hamouda ; Supervised Gnter Lang - Cairo : Yasmina Abdellatif Hamouda , 2010 - 83Leaves : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - German University - Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research - Department of Economics

Motivated by the riseof the electricity tariffs applied on industrial customers this thesis assesses the economic feasibility of installing a stand alone wind energy technology by an industrial customer who seeks to reduce his dependence on the national grid . For this purpose the wind energy potential at the wind regime of north eastern Cairo was chosen to be assessed using half an hour wind speed data collected for this site for a period of one year2009