Wind Power Plants: Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals, design, construction and operation of wind turbines.

Topics include:
* introduction to wind energy
* historical background
* wind turbines -- design and components
* the wind
* wind turbine dimensioning
* calculation of performance characteristics and partial loads behavior
* structural loads and strength issues
* scaling wind turbines and rules of similarity
* wind-pumping systems
* power generation
* control of wind turbines
* dynamic problems of wind turbines
* offshore wind farms

Wind Power Plants is essential reading for anyone working in or interested by wind energy, including planning engineers, consultants on renewable energy projects, manufacturers of turbines and components, researchers and students of wind energy. This book includes contributions from 14 experts in academia and industry.