Wind Power Generation.

Front Cover -- Wind Power Generation -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1 An Introduction to Wind Power -- The History of Wind Power -- Global Wind Power Capacity -- 2 The Wind Energy Resource -- Wind Speed and Power Generation -- The Global Wind Resource -- 3 The Anatomy of a Wind Turbine -- Vertical Axis Wind Turbines -- Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines -- 4 Rotors and Blades -- Blade Length -- Rotor Aerodynamics -- Energy Capture -- Tip Speed Ratio -- Speed Control -- Blade Design and Construction -- Advanced Blade and Rotor Design -- Turbine Lifetimes -- 5 Drive Trains, Gearboxes, and Generators -- The Wind Turbine Gearbox -- Generators for Wind Turbines -- Doubly-Fed Induction Generators -- Synchronous Generators -- Direct Drive Generators -- 6 Nacelles and Towers -- The Nacelle -- Tower-Top Real-Time Condition Monitoring -- The Yaw Bearing and Motor -- Wind Turbine Towers -- Wind Turbine Foundations -- Wind Turbine Resonances -- 7 Wind Farms, Electrical Optimization, and Repowering -- Array Optimization -- Cable Layout -- Wind Turbine Transformers -- Repowering Wind Farms -- 8 Small Wind Turbines -- Small Wind Turbine Manufacturers and Applications -- Small Wind Turbine Technologies -- Siting Small Wind Turbines -- 9 Offshore Wind -- Offshore Wind Turbine Technology -- Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines -- Floating Wind Turbine Foundations -- Offshore Wind Turbine Size -- Infrastructure Considerations and Offshore Grids -- 10 Wind Power Grid Integration and Environmental Issues -- Wind Integration and Grid Operation -- Energy Storage -- Geographical Averaging of Wind Output -- Wind Integration Limits -- Wind Energy and Grid Structural Issues -- Wind Power and the Environment -- 11 The Cost of Electricity from Wind Turbines -- Levelized Cost of Energy Model -- Wind Turbine Capital Costs -- The Levelized Cost of Wind Energy -- Back Cover.

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