Advanced Wind Turbine Technology
This book introduces the current challenges in modern wind turbine analysis, design and development, and provides a comprehensive examination of state-of-the-art technologies from both academia and industry. The twelve information-rich chapters cover a wi
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Advanced Wind Turbine Technology
Advanced Wind Turbine Technology
Weifei Hu Editor
Advanced Wind Turbine Technology
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Editor Weifei Hu Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Cornell University Ithaca, New York, USA
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Introduction
Introduction Wind energy has been significantly growing as one of clean, abundant, and affordable renewable energies worldwide during the past decades. More than 314,000 wind turbines (WT) are now operating around the world and supplied more than 4.3% of 2015 global electricity demand. The levelized cost of energy from WT has decreased substantially in recent years making wind energy now the lowest cost, non-hydropower renewable electricity source. A recent expert elicitation on future wind energy costs projected reductions of levelized total annual operating expenditures (which closely equate to operation and maintenance costs) of 9% over the period 2015–2030. Meanwhile, WT have evolved rapidly with the rated power increased from 100 kW in the early 1980s to 8 MW-plus today. Advanced WT technology emerges to support these ever-increasing titans to improve efficiency, increase reliability, reduce cost, and provide more power than their counterparts before, eventually making wind power a better choice for power generation. There are plenty of books addressing the fundamentals of WT te
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