Evaluate the wind energy potential in Yazd

With population growth and progress of human society and human life needs to energy sources and also environmental pollution caused by fossil fuels, many countries are looking to use clean energy sources. Wind energy is one of them. In this paper was to evaluate the potential of wind energy in Yazd city. After review and analysis of meteorological data from 2011 to 2014 by software, the annual average wind speed at a height of 50 meters, 3.174 m/s and wind power density of 54 W/m2 was obtained show that the city of Yazd does not have good potential to exploit wind energy.