Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 2
Forty Years of Wind Energy Development
Jos Beurskens
ECN Wind Energy, P. O. Box 1, 1755 ZG Petten, The Netherlands
beurskens@ecn.nl
It was during the early seventies, that I started thinking about
sustainability and started working on wind energy technology
as one of the sustainable energy supply options. After almost
40 years of intensive involvement I realise that I am one of the
few lucky ones, who experienced the entire development period
of modern wind power technology. I feel it as a duty to provide a
(personal view) on the developments in those 40 years, if it were
only to prevent unnecessary duplications of past developments.
Below I will address some developments from my personal
point of view; developments in the areas of wind turbine systems
and applications in a framework which is determined by advances
in
science
and
technology,
market
development,
integration
requirements and policy.
 
 
 
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