Assessment of Wind Energy Potential at Abuloma Community in Nigeria Using Two-Parameter Weibull Distribution

This paper focused on wind energy potential assessment of Abuloma community at 70m height. The wind speed data used for this work was measured at 2m and 10m height from 2018 – 2022 obtained from the National Aeronautic Space Agency (NASA) weather database. The power law with wind shear exponent value of 0.592 was used to extrapolate the wind speed data to height of 70m. The wind speed data was evaluated using two-parameter Weibull distribution model and Power Density Method (PDM). The result shows that the annual mean wind speed is 7.21m/s. The monthly mean wind speeds vary from 5m/s and 10m/s. The shape parameter for the five years has an annual average value of 4.65. The scale parameter has an annual average value of 7.88m/s for the five years. The annual average most probable wind speed (Vmp) for the five years was found to be 7.48m/s. The Vmp values span from 6.41 to 9.02m/s. The annual average maximum energy carrying wind speed (VmaxE) for the five years was calculated to be 8.51m/s. The annual mean wind power density was 235.27W/m2 at height of 70m. The mean wind energy density was 171.75kWh/m2 at height of 70m. According to wind power classification, the study site was classified as marginal and good in terms of the wind power density and wind speed respectively. The study revealed that Abuloma community has good wind energy potential for power generation for grid integration.