Wind energy technology and current status: a review

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 315-374

  Ackermann, Thomas ^a   Söder, Lennart ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARKETING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY; WIND TURBINES;

GRID CONNECTED POWER GENERATION; OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY; STAND ALONE POWER GENERATION;

WIND POWER;

EID: 0342571696     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-0321(00)00004-6     Document Type: Article

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