Viability of Commercial On-Shore Wind Farm Sites in Viti Levu, Fiji

The Energy Fiji Limited’s (EFL’s) first major wind project, commissioned in late 2007 at Butoni, Sigatoka has been unable to perform to expectations. Among the reasons given is inadequate information on the wind resource potential at the selected site. This stresses the need for a thorough resource evaluation before a wind project is actually implemented. This chapter carries out a wind resource assessment of two sites in Viti Levu using 10-min interval data over a 2 year period obtained from the Fiji Meteorological Services.