I encourage all those who will read this book, will promote both directly and indirectly the use and awareness of wind energy as a clean and viable source of electric power.
—Thomas Ackerman, Ph.D., Wind Power Author and Founder,
Energynautics GmbH, Germany
Those who will read this book, will be well prepared to work in the wind power sector and participate in the important task to develop a renewable energy system which can stop the global climate change.
—Tore Wizelius, Wind Power Author,
Teacher and Wind Project Developer, Sweden
This book provides a valuable technical information on small wind turbines that will allow students to become amateur wind engineers and entrepreneurs in this growing industry.
—Urban Green Energy, USA
This comprehensive textbook discusses the underlying principles of different types of grid connected renewable energy sources and in particular, the detailed underpinning knowledge required to understand the different types of grid connected wind power plants. A unique feature of this book is that along with every figure title, a brief explanation follows that helps the reader to understand the concepts without going back to the paragraphs again.
The saying that a picture is more than a thousand words is evident from the 260 illustrations. The relevant pictures, tables, graphs and ample worked-out examples accelerate the learning. The coverage of software-based computer simulation examples of grid connected wind electrical generators is another special characteristic of this book. Still, another unique feature is the inclusion of a chapter on the much sought after small wind turbine technologies.
Designed as a textbook for Renewable Energy courses with emphasis on wind power offered in the undergraduate and diploma engineering programmes in most of the universities of India, the book can serve for the one-semester stream specific course on Renewable Energy or Wind Energy for senior level undergraduate students of electrical, mechanical, electronics and instrumentation engineering as well as for the postgraduate engineering students.
About the Author
Joshua Earnest is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR), Bhopal. He has about six years of industrial experience and twenty-eight years of teaching and training experience. Besides being a trainer–educator of engineering teachers at the university and tertiary levels, he also trains executives of the industry.
His expertise is in the area of wind power and engineering education as well. His earlier book Wind Power Plants and Project Development by PHI Learning, Delhi, won the best publication award of 2011 jointly given by Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), Belgium and WISE Pune. He has been the convener of India’s First International Wind Energy Conference at NITTTR Bhopal in January 2006 and later in 2011 as well. Other than being a guest professor for wind power at Gotland University, Sweden, he has been the online wind power education resource person to CEPRI, China. Since 2009, he has been the wind power resource person for LIFE Academy, Karlstad, Sweden, University of Namibia, Windhoek and for other organization too. He has also received credit for a considerable number of papers and articles published at the national and international levels.
