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This work presents the first statistical analysis about the wind characteristics using measured wind speed data for the period of five years by the meteorological station on Shark El-Ouinat City in depth west southern Egyptian desert. The average annual wind speed is obtained as 6.5 m/s over 10 m height. The annual average of Weibull parameters is 2.1 for shape factor k and 7.4 m/s for the scale parameter c. The predominant winds are (360 degrees) with a percentage 47.1% throughout the year. Estimation of wind energy potential per month at 10 m altitude via two various techniques was studied, where Rayleigh distribution is not accurate for fitting it for this location. The wind energy potential from wind that can be arrived is nearly 582 kW/m(2) per year at 100 m height that are comparable with and higher than its counterparts at much nations like USA, Brazil, Great Britain, Holland, and Russia.

A technical estimation is introduced of electric current production from - a 150 MW wind park-considered at this area, which will which will generate an electrical energy at a rate of 730,791 MWh yearly with capacity factor of 56%, at hub height 100 m. And the expected cost is 1.3 (sic) cent/kWh by using a new simple procedure (methodology) to account for the cost analysis of electricity generated from the wind farms.