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This paper presents on investigation of site selection for wind turbine on the basis of wind flow characteristic at RGPV Hill-top. The purpose of this article is to addressing the general aspects of this area of knowledge and contextualizing it to perform an investigation on wind flow characteristics and to determine the Annual Energy Production (AEP) for previously installed wind turbines located at the same site. In this work, the recorded time series wind data fetched by the NRG Symphonie Data logger wind mast installed at Energy Park, RGPV campus. This data analyzed for a period of One year at the height of 20 meter, for studying the observed wind climate (OWC).The wind turbine site selection tool i.e. WAsP, presented in this paper provides insights into the most feasible sites for a given geographic area based on user inputs, and can assist for the further planning. The influences of roughness of the terrain, for the area were also taken into consideration, followed by the vector map of the area. These data were analyzed using WAsP software and regional wind climate of the area was determined, leading to a wind resource map of the whole site, providing vital details which helped in selecting the proposed turbine sites.