CONTENTS Overview I SECTION I: VALUE PROPOSITION 1. Wind Harvest: Prospects and Problems 3 Nirmala Rao Khadpekar 2. Wind Power 14 Ton van de Wekken and Fred Wien 3.Whose Wind?: Prospects for Cooperative and Community Wind Development on the US Upper Great Plains 39 Bart Finzel and Arne Kildegaard 4.Wind Energy: Issues to Consider 58 Brian J Frosch and ]oe L Outlaw 5.Wind Power Today 67 www1.eere.energy.gov 6.Whither Wind? 84 Charles Komanoff 7.Wind Energy: A Promising Future 95 Deepika M G SECTION II: TECHNOLOGY CONSIDERATIONS 8.A Review of NDT Techniques for Wind Turbines 103 M A Drewry and G A Georgian 9.Offshore Wind Power on the Horizon: A New Energy Frontier for Oceans, People and Wildlife 117 Jererrry Firestone, Sandy Butterfield, ChristinaJarvis and Jacfc Clarice 10.Wind Farm Development and Operation: A Case Study 125 Ton van de Wekken 11.Impact of Trade Wind Offshore Wind Power Capacity Scenarios on Power Flows in the European HV Network 145 JOG Tande, M Korpds, L Warland, K Uhlen and F Van Hulle SECTION III: EXPERIENCES AND INITIATIVES 12.Support for Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Farm Development in China 163 W L Wallace, Z Y Wang and S ] Liu 13.Institutional Factors and Knowledge Co-Evolution for Developing the Wind Energy Industry in India 173 Rekha Rao 14.Wind Energy in India: The Future and the Challenge 190 A Lakshminarasimha and S Rath 15.Research and Assessment of Wind Turbine's Noise in Vydmantai 204 Bronius Jaskelevicius and Natalija Uzpelkiene 16.Wind Resources, Inc. 221 Rocky Higgins and Robert Keeley Annexure 239 Index. 265