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Abstract
Wind Energy is a clean economic form of energy. Wind is providing a big share of the world’s electricity; so it is becoming a significant component of renewable energy establishment plans, because it is a practically regenerating natural source. Wind power produces clean energy; it doesn’t cause water, soil or air pollution; hence it is considered environmentally appropriate which make it much better than other renewable energy sources that produce much of hard-to-manage wastes. Wind power is the fastest growing form of renewable energy internationally. During the last decade; scientists state that such establishments will carry on. Site selection is a procedure that integrates multiple factors to follow practical way as GIS provides the capability of high quality maps for wind farm site selection quickly and simply.
Throughout the study; constraints and alternatives were gathered together. Thirty factors were defined to select the suitable site for wind farms and prepared the input layers, the output maps are divided into different 4 classes ranging from restricted to most suitable areas. The basic purpose of the present study was to determine the feasible locations for establishing wind farms. These locations are set by multiple international standards from an engineering and environmental point of view related to energy projects such as wind potential, approximation to residential areas and environmental factors.
The main criterion is the locations that own feasible wind potential; by first selecting the best interpolation method, which was the IDW (Inverse Distance Weighted interpolation). Then locating the best sites due to their mean wind potential values taking into consideration the level of the terrain geological and the topographical components. The third step was to check surface roughness along with wind speed in the selected localities which are intended to establish wind farms on the best locations are partially lying within the Southern Sector (Suez Governorate ) resembling the vast majority of total feasible locations due to its nature, topography, potential and suitability due to the international standards of wind energy establishment rules; then the Central Sector (Ismailia Governorate) with a smaller
Conclusion
area, and finally the Northern Sector (Port Said Governorate) with the least sector in area of suitability due to its nature too.
The results showed the selected locations which are suitable for the standardized such as good accessibility; approximation with transmission lines which eases power transmission to different places with the lowest possible cost. Although there are many bare land locations present in the studied area that can be candidate for the procedures of the site selection but restrictions and standards of the alternatives omit many of these locations because they don’t fit the other factors; this turns these sites to infeasible sites for this procedure at that time but might be fit for different other activities.
The optimum locations that have been proposed were dispersed through the study area in Suez which has the biggest share of locations suitability with the biggest feasible areas ; Then Ismailia Governorate with a area less than of Suez ; Port Said governorate has the least feasible areas, all resemble the most suitable locations for wind farms establishment process due to their wind velocities, surface roughness values , their approximation power transmission lines and roads, and there is no type of undesired interference which affect the wind turbines or any already existing activity itself.
Suggestions for the upcoming Future plans
Due to the outcome results in this thesis, to facilitate the proposed farms establishments in the future; here is a simple framework to follow:
1. The Egyptian government is to give more considerations to the Wind power resource which is a potential resource of clean energy.
2. Proposed sites should be selected depending on the average mean speed of wind in their places and in different altitudes.
3. It is recommended that Geotechnical studies such as soil testing should be taken into consideration during planning for such projects to provide a more accurate result; such as checking the terrain’s stability against vibrates generated by wind farms.
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4. 3. It is recommended that regular in-situ measurements using hand held anemometers and the data should be averaged for at t least 2 years and up to 5 years.
5. It is recommended to use Arc/GIS application for spotting analysis to produce wind potential maps for the input data resembling the criteria used in the work are input to the applications in the GIS environment to calculate the suitability index based on the relative weights of each criterion. Geospatial analysis is proofed as powerful tool for the windmill farms data analysis and mapping.
6. Weibull Distribution investigation should be made for data to determine wind velocities distribution all over the area of interest.
7. It is recommended for the area of study to install the best developed type of wind turbines is the ”Solar Powered Wind Turbine” that operate on windy days and use solar cells installed on the wind farm surfaces during the days with no winds at all or very low wind speeds.