The Wind Power Story: A Century of Innovation That Reshaped the Global Energy Landscape

By Brandon Owens

Although several books and articles have been written onspecific aspects of the history of wind power, none of themprovides a comprehensive technology, policy and market overview. Inparticular, no book has been written that covers the last 20 years, the two most important decades in the history of wind power.Further, no single book spans the entire global history of windpower, while weaving together both the historical context and thetechnical details of wind turbine evolution. This book willspan the entire history of wind power (1888-2013) and providebalanced coverage to each era as well as the wind power technologyadvances that occurred during that time. This book will alsoprovide historical context for wind power developments and it willexplain the evolution of wind turbine technology in aneasy-to-understand manner. The key to this book is that it willdiscuss the policy, technology and market evolution of wind powerin commonly understood language.
This book will also introduce and examine broad themes such asgovernment funding of wind power, the role of fossil fuels in windpower development and the importance of the individual entrepreneurin wind power development. Finally, this book will discuss thelessons learned from wind power technology development and makethem relevant to the understanding of wind power today. In thismanner, the individual chapters will be pulled together though acommon discussion of the technology development lessons learned ineach chapter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118794184
• ISBN13: 9781118794180
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"