A Techno-Economic Investigation of Wind Power Potential in Coastal Belt of Sindh: Preventing Energy Crisis in Pakistan

Pakistan has been facing an energy crisis for many years. Techno-economic analysis of wind power generation is carried out to meet demand. Wind data from 2016 2018 selected a coastal site Sindh, Pakistan. For this purpose, four distribution functions, namely Weibull, Gamma, Rayleigh, and Lognormal are used. These functions compared using the coefficient determination (R2) root mean square error tests. potential on daily, monthly, yearly seasonal basis evaluated. In regard, various turbine models estimate their capacity. The assessment results hub height 100 m shows average speed three years 7.9 m/s with direction dominated between West Southwest. most probable 9.5 having maximum density 455 kWh/m2 in May. 8.55 spring. Weibull function (k = 2.92 & C 8.86 m/s) performs best. capacity factor Fuhrlander LLC WTU 3.0–120 55.49% Siemens SWT-3.15–142 55.22%. Likewise, estimated lowest LCOE ($/1kWh) $0.04016 $0.04035 respectively. Thus, contains suitable technical economic characteristics plant.