Technical and Economic Analysis of a Wind Power Generation System for Rural Electrification in Subequatorial Area of Africa

This paper reports on a technical and economic evaluation of an autonomous wind system for domestic electricity generation to be used in a secondary school located in a Sahel zone of central Africa. Indeed, development and application of renewable resources are very common in the industrialized countries as well as in some of the so-called third-world countries. With regard to Cameroon, this large country is characterized by a much-diversified climate and two distinct geographical zones, an equatorial region in the South and a Sahel region in the North. Application of renewable energy in this country could be very interesting not only in the development of its potential for electrical production but it could also be a solution for the rural electrification which remains a big challenge. The results presented in this paper entail the evaluation of the load profile of the end user and the dimensioning of an autonomous production system with storage, on the basis of wind potential of the site. A marginal evaluation of the cost of such an installation as well as an economic analysis of such a project is also discussed.