1st Edition
Wind Resources and Future Energy Security Environmental, Social, and Economic Issues
Introduction
Part I: Wind Energy’s Potential Assessment in Selected Locations
Analysis of Wind Speed Data and Wind Energy Potential in Three Selected Locations in South-East Nigeria; Sunday O. Oyedepo, Muyiwa S. Adaramola, and Samuel S. Paul
Assessment of the Present and Future Offshore Wind Power Potential: A Case Study in a Target Territory of the Baltic Sea Near the Latvian Coast; Lita Lizuma, Zanita Avotniece, Sergejs Rupainis, and Artis Teilans
Power Generation Expansion Planning Including Large Scale Wind Integration: A Case Study of Oman; Arif S. Malik and Cornelius Kuba
Developing a GIS-Based Visual-Acoustic 3D Simulation for Wind Farm Assessment; Madeleine Manyoky, Ulrike Wissen Hayek, Kurt Heutschi, Reto Pieren, and Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Part II: Social, Economic, and Environmental Issues
Assessment of Wind Power Generation Along the Coast of Ghana; Muyiwa S. Adaramola, Martin Agelin-Chaab, and Samuel S. Paul
Assessing Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future; Helen Bailey, Kate L. Brookes, and Paul M. Thompson
Socioeconomic Impacts of Wind Farm Development: A Case Study of Weatherford, Oklahoma; John Scott Greene and Mark Geisken
Optimizing Wind Power Generation while Minimizing Wildlife Impacts in an Urban Area; Gil Bohrer, Kunpeng Zhu, Robert L. Jones, and Peter S. Curtis
Land Cover and Topography Affect the Land Transformation Caused by Wind Facilities; Jay E. Diffendorfer and Roger W. Compton
Wind Turbines and Human Health; Loren D. Knopper, Christopher A. Ollson, Lindsay C. McCallum, Melissa L. Whitfield Aslund, Robert G. Berger, Kathleen Souweine, and Mary McDaniel
Public Engagement with Large-Scale Renewable Energy Technologies: Breaking the Cycle of NIMBYism; Patrick Devine-Wright
Part III: Trends and Future Challenges
Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring: State-of-the-Art Review, New Trends, and Future Challenges; Pierre Tchakoua, René Wamkeue, Mohand Ouhrouche, Fouad Slaoui-Hasnaoui, Tommy Andy Tameghe, and Gabriel Ekemb
Overview of Problems in Large-Scale Wind Integrations; Xiaoming Yuan
Biography
Dr. Muyiwa S. Adaramola earned his BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and University of Ibadan, Nigeria, respectively. He received his PhD in environmental engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. He has worked as lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University and as a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Currently, Dr. Adaramola is an associate professor in renewable energy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
"…a collection of already published articles, in their exact forms, collected by Adaramola (renewable energy, Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences). The book is organized into three parts, each consisting of several articles. Part 1 covers wind energy resources in selected regions of the world (four articles). Part 2 is titled "Social, Economic, and Environmental Impacts" (seven articles), and part 3 ("Trends and Future Challenges") consists of two articles. Each of the collected articles is interesting and the editor has done a good job selecting relevant and important papers in the field..."
—CHOICE, January 2016
