Small Wind: Planning and Building Successful Installations

Small wind turbines utilize wind energy to produce power with rated capacities of 100 kilowatts or less. With this increasingly popular technology, individual businesses, farms, and homes can generate their own electricity and cut their energy bills , while generating power in an environmentally sound manner. The challenges facing the engineers who are tasked with planning and developing these small wind systems are multifaceted, from choosing the best site and accurately estimating  power output, to obtaining proper permitting and troubleshooting operational inefficiencies. Optimization of project development for small wind applications is a necessity. Small Wind: Planning and Building Successful Installations provides a cohesive guide to achieving successful small wind installations from an informed expert. It is a comprehensive information resource from one of the world’s most experienced small wind professionals, covering all the key issues for small wind system development, from site and machine selection to international standards compliance.

Establishes technical guidelines for the growing number of engineers called upon to plan small wind projects Identifies and explains the critical issues for small wind installations, including siting, turbine choice, applications and permitting, economics, load management, and grid integration Examples from real projects demonstrate key considerations for success, complete with template spreadsheets and measurements needed to support project planning efforts Includes reports on the most commonly used turbines and designs and synthesizes and clarifies relevant wind industry documentation, saving readers endless hours of research

Chapter 1: Introduction to Small Wind
Chapter 2: Site Evaluation
Chapter 3: Needs Evaluation
Chapter 4: Wind Turbine Components and Descriptions
Chapter 5: Towers and foundations
Chapter 6: Machine Selection 
Chapter 7: Economic Considerations
Chapter 8: Permitting
Chapter 9: Installation
Chapter 10: System Operation with Electrical Interconnections
Chapter 11: System Operation in Stand-Alone Machines
Chapter 12: Operational Troubleshooting
Chapter 13: Distributed Wind Systems as a Growth of Small Wind
Chapter 14: Future of Small Wind