TY - JOUR
T1 - Progress and recent trends in wind energy
AU - Sahin, Ahmet Duran
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Towards the end of 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, interest has risen in new and renewable energy (RE) sources especially wind energy for electricity generation. The scientists and researchers attempted to accelerate solutions for wind energy generation design parameters. Our life is directly related to energy and its consumption, and the issues of energy research are extremely important and highly sensitive. In a short time, wind energy is welcomed by society, industry and politics as a clean, practical, economical and environmentally friendly alternative. After the 1973 oil crisis, the RE sources started to appear in the agenda and hence the wind energy gained significant interest. As a result of extensive studies on this topic, wind energy has recently been applied in various industries, and it started to compete with other energy resources. In this paper, wind energy is reviewed and opened for further discussion. Wind energy history, wind-power meteorology, the energy-climate relations, wind-turbine technology, wind economy, wind-hybrid applications and the current status of installed wind energy capacity all over the world reviewed critically with further enhancements and new research trend direction suggestions.
AB - Towards the end of 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, interest has risen in new and renewable energy (RE) sources especially wind energy for electricity generation. The scientists and researchers attempted to accelerate solutions for wind energy generation design parameters. Our life is directly related to energy and its consumption, and the issues of energy research are extremely important and highly sensitive. In a short time, wind energy is welcomed by society, industry and politics as a clean, practical, economical and environmentally friendly alternative. After the 1973 oil crisis, the RE sources started to appear in the agenda and hence the wind energy gained significant interest. As a result of extensive studies on this topic, wind energy has recently been applied in various industries, and it started to compete with other energy resources. In this paper, wind energy is reviewed and opened for further discussion. Wind energy history, wind-power meteorology, the energy-climate relations, wind-turbine technology, wind economy, wind-hybrid applications and the current status of installed wind energy capacity all over the world reviewed critically with further enhancements and new research trend direction suggestions.
KW - Incentive
KW - Pitch control
KW - Power meteorology
KW - Stall control
KW - Wind energy
KW - Wind modeling
KW - Wind turbine
KW - Wind-hybrid system
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3342896689&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pecs.2004.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.pecs.2004.04.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:3342896689
SN - 0360-1285
VL - 30
SP - 501
EP - 543
JO - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
JF - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
IS - 5
ER -