A Study on the Wind as Renewable Energy in Perlis, Northern Malaysia

摘要

This paper represented analysis of wind speed and study of vertical axis wind turbine. There are two type vertical axis wind turbine that had been discussed on this paper that are Darrieus type and Savonius type wind turbine. The wind speed data is recorded using Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather station. A few calculations has been done to get output power from the wind to shows the possibilities and potentialities of wind energy whether it can be develop in Perlis.