Wind Energy Conversion 1992

Wind energy - current status in the UK; Wind energy in the European market; Wind energy economics; Wind farm operations; Developments in wind turbine technology; Field testing and commerciauation of the AOC 15150 wind turbine; Comparison of various control strategies for a two-bladed wind turbine; Development of particle image velocimetry for rotor flow measurement; Progress in the creation of standards for wind turbines; Extreme wind loads on stall regulated wind turbines; Wind energy - a cost effective answer to rural development in Africa; Dynamic control of a stand-alone wind turbine; The Geoff Pontin Memorial Lecture; The wind farm business; Wind power in Scotland - a critique of recent resource assessments; Practical difficulties in raising fuiance for wind farms; Large wind turbines and weak rural electricity systems; Fatigue testing of wood composites for aerogenerator blades, Part XI. Assessment of fatigue damage accumulation using a fatigue modulus approach; The visual impact and design of wind farms in the landscape; The development and testing of a novel windpump; Acoustic and wind speed data analysis as an environmental issue; Mechanical noise emanations from tubular wind turbines; Selfexcitation of fixed speed wind turbines; The reduction of tonal noise radiated from tubular wind turbine generator towers; Self-excitation of fixed speed wind turbines; Direct-drive, grid-connected, modular permanent-magnet generators; A new correlation/prediction method for potential wind farm sites; Short-term field measurements of wind speed across a potential wind farm site.