Feasibility study of producing green hydrogen from wind energy in El-Oued region (Algeria)

The potential for developing wind energy for hydrogen production in El-Oued region (Algeria) is investigated in this paper. Hourly wind speed data for the year 2021 was used to estimate the monthly green hydrogen that could be extracted from a typical commercial wind turbine as well as from a wind farm. A statical approach based on the Weibull distribution has been used to estimate the annual and monthly energy productions of the studied wind-hydrogen system. This study found that hydrogen production from wind energy is encouraging in the El-Oued region. According to the obtained results, hydrogen generation is 33 % higher in the summer than in the other seasons. The results also have showed that the annual energy production (AEP) extracted from a typical wind turbine installed in El-Oued region could produce a green hydrogen amount that feeds about 36 vehicles per year, or 14.45 MWh of equivalent electrical energy.