The paper assesses the feasibility of wind farming at the 16 sites scattered in different ecological regions of Nepal. The wind speed,the hourly and seasonal variation of wind, the wind-rose, the wind turbulence rate, the wind power density, the Weibull probabilitydistribution and the frequency of the wind speed above cut in speed were computed. The average wind speed at all the sites was foundto be higher during the dry season from March to May. The wind speed of the modern turbine for power generation at eight sites wasfound to be above cut-in speed. However, the wind power density was found to be good only at the two sites and fairly good at thesix sites. More than 50 % time of a year at these eight sites had over 3.5 m/s wind speed. However, the turbulence rate at all thestudied sites was found to be above the acceptance range of 25 %. Among the study sites, Kagbeni, Thini, Jumla, Ramechhap, Vorleni,Patan west, Hansapur and Baddanda were found to be technically feasible sites for wind energy generation in Nepal.
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