Workshops

Overview of Worldwide Wind Energy Development

(01) Overview: Wind Energy Comes of Age (93)

Wind Plants, Distributed Generation, Applications, Growth, Market, Penetration, Revenues, People, North American Market, Why Wind, Why Now, Installed Cost, Size, Benefits, Challenges, Impacts, Public Safety, Deaths, Conservation, Community Wind, Cooperatives, Distributed Wind, Electricity Feed Laws, Wind Works.

Beauty, Opinion Surveys, Acceptance, Design, Uniformity, Clutter, Open spacing, Power Lines, Ancillary Structures, Spinning, Headless Horsemen, Dressing, Cleaning, Marking, Tidiness, Bone Yards, Harmonization, Roads, Steep Slopes, Erosion, Hardening, Billboards, Logos, Cell Phones, Proportions, Color, Obstruction Marking, Detail, Information, Access, Good Neighbors.

Nomenclature, Historical Examples, Models of Development, Applications, Interconnection, Arrays, Spacing, Offshore, Elements of a Wind Plant, Large Turbine Manufacturers.

Power in the Wind, Air Density, Terrain, Wind Resource, Speeds, Distribution, Speed & Height, Regional Wind Resources, Estimating AEO, Swept Area, Yields, Efficiency, Swept Area Method, Power Curve Method, Net Generation, Software, Standards, Sources of Information, Case Studies, Small Wind, Distributed Wind, Altamont Pass.

Configuration, Axis of Rotation, HAWTs, VAWTs, Blade Number, Blade Materials, Blade Shape, Taper & Twist, Coning, Orientation, Overspeed Controls, Airfoils, Stall & Angle of Attack.

Hubs (Stayed, Cantilevered, Fixed, Teetering), Drive Trains (Integrated, Direct Drive), Generators (Induction, Doubly Fed), Ring Generators, Dual Generators, Variable Speed, Towers, Guyed (Lattice, Tubular, Hinged), Foundations, Lightning, Obstruction Marking, O&M, Safety.

Small Turbine Applications, Problems with Small Wind, Test Fields, Wulf Field Tests, Bergey Excel, Small Turbine Noise, Small Turbine Manufacturers, Wind Works.

Note: Case Studies or other sections can be tailored to meet the needs of the audience. A section showing an installation sequence for a micro-, household-size, and large wind turbine can also be added.