Feasibility Study and Design of Wind Power Generation in Geidam, Yobe State

Abstract

This study presents a statistical analysis of hourly wind speed and direction data for Geidam area (12.90°N, 11.93°E) collected between January and June 2025. Using hourly data from an open-source meteorological dataset, we evaluated temporal variations, diurnal cycles, and wind direction distribution and fitted a two-parameter Weibull distribution to assess wind energy potential. The Weibull probability distribution was fitted to the dataset to assess wind energy potential. The findings indicate a mean windspeed of 3.19 m/s with Weibull parameters k=3.02 and λ=3.55, suggesting moderate suitability for small-scale wind energy applications and microgrids.

Keywords: Weibull parameters; temporal variations wind direction; diurnal cycles; wind energy.