Use of Power Burr X Distribution in the Analysis of Wind Speed for Certain Regions of Pakistan

Abstract A Country’s progress and development are mainly dependent on its indigenous energy supply capacity. For the past few decades, Pakistan is facing a severe energy crisis mainly due to political instability and a lack of renewable energy policies designed by the present as well as previous governments. According to Pakistan economic survey 2019-20, still, there is a shortfall of about 3000MW in the electrical sector for the summer of 2020. Wind speed models can be utilized for developing effective policies for the production of efficient renewable resources. In this study, power Burr X distribution was utilized as an alternative probabilistic model for the better evaluation of wind energy potential. The performance of the model is observed for wind speed data taken from different locations of Sindh province in Pakistan. The findings indicate that the power Burr X distribution is more preferable for the evaluation of wind speed potential as compared to Weibull and other wind speed distributions.