EL268 — Wind Power
EL 268 - Wind Power EL 268 - Wind Power This course will provide an overview of fundamental concepts necessary to work with wind power systems, including aerodynamics of wind turbines, wind characteristics and resources, determination of turbine’s power output, design of various sizes wind turbines, power transmission, transformers, generators (ac induction/asynchronous, ac synchronous, ac double fed induction generators, dc generators), wind turbine materials and components, wind turbine siting, interconnection with the utility, off-the-grid systems, hybrid systems, wind energy economics, environmental aspects and impacts. Course
Prerequisites: EL154, EL202