Description
In her timely new book, best-selling author Rebecca Busby provides a balanced, comprehensive view of the wind power industry. Dr. Jon G. McGowan recommends this well-written and well-documented book as "required reading for people who want to obtain an initial overview of this most interesting energy field."
The book enables readers to:
- Expand their knowledge of the environmental and economic issues associated with wind power development
- Understand the steps involved in developing a wind farm and the best ways to operate it successfully and profitably
- Find out how wind energy is integrated into power grids and transmission networks, including the growing use of technologies for energy storage
- Get an overall picture of the global wind business and the deployment of offshore wind power
- Learn the basics of how wind power is generated and used, how wind turbines work, and how wind power systems are designed
- Understand how wind energy is measured and evaluated at prospective sites with included maps of wind resources worldwide
- Review the status of global wind energy research, technology development, and product testing, as well as advanced wind power generation concepts
Contents:
- Overview: how wind power works
- Components: what is a wind turbine made of?
- Wind power system design: combining strength and flexibility
- Small wind power: traditional systems and alternative designs
- Assessment: mapping and measuring the world's wind
- Wind farms: developing and operating wind power plants
- Wind power integration: striking a new balance
- Transmission and storage: facilitating wind power integration
- Offshore wind: entering the mainstream
- Advanced technologies: R&D, testing, and new twists on old ideas
- The global wind industry: markets, business, and government policy
- Environmental and economic issues: wind power grows up
568 Pages/Hardcover/May 2012
ISBN10 1-59370-244-2
