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With the present day’s energy crisis and growing environmental consciousness, the global perspective in energy conversion and consumption is shifting towards sustainable resources and technologies. This resulted in an appreciable increase in the renewable energy installations in different part of the world. For example, Wind power could register an annual growth rate over 25% for the past 7 years, making it the fastest growing energy source in the world. The global wind power capacity has crossed well above 160 GW today and several Multi-Megawatt projects-both on shore and offshore-are in the pipeline. Hence, wind energy is going to be the major player in realizing our dream of meeting at least 20% of the global energy demand by new-renewables by 2020.
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Mathew, S., Philip, G.S., Lim, C.M. (2011). Analysis of Wind Regimes and Performance of Wind Turbines. In: Sathyajith, M., Philip, G. (eds) Advances in Wind Energy Conversion Technology. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88258-9_2
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