Trends and Innovations in Wind Power Systems: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: renewable energy systems; wind turbines; planetary speed increasers; photovoltaic systems; solar tracking systems; sustainable hybrid systems; artificial intelligence; product design and development
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to publish your latest research results in this Special Issue of Energies, entitled ‘Trends and Innovations in Wind Power Systems: 2nd Edition’.
The global wind power capacity registered in the last decade, including both onshore and offshore, exponentially increased every year, reaching over 1100 GW—a consolidated second place in output among renewables. Thus, wind energy is becoming a major source of green and cost-competitive energy worldwide, although it is site-dependent and its conversion is influenced by equipment performance.
Increasing energy conversion efficiency to maximize the use of onsite renewable potential is a major challenge. Many innovative solutions for wind turbines have been proposed in recent years, such as counter-rotating wind rotors, high-performance mechanical transmissions, and more compact and efficient electric generators, including counter-rotating generators, large-capacity wind turbines that use multiple smaller rotors in a spatial arrangement, etc. The integration of wind turbines into the built environment has been intensively studied by combining their technical, environmental, and esthetic aspects. Researchers and designers in the field are facing market demands for affordable, efficient, reliable, stable, and smart solutions for wind turbines.
The second edition of this Energies Special Issue, entitled 'Trends and Innovations in Wind Power Systems: 2nd Edition’, builds upon the success of the first edition by further advancing the discourse on the topic. This Special Issue will continue to gather new research results and future trends in the field of wind turbines, covering a broad range of topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following:
- Wind energy potential and forecasting;
- Innovative designs and optimization of wind turbines;
- Modeling and numerical simulations of wind turbines;
- Intelligent control of wind turbines;
- Wind energy conversion efficiency;
- Reliability and maintenance of wind turbines;
- Integration of wind turbines into the built environment;
- Energy management.
Review papers and articles based on multidisciplinary research are also encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Mircea Neagoe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wind power system
- horizontal axis wind turbine
- vertical axis wind turbine
- counter-rotating wind turbine
- wind rotor speed increaser
- gearbox
- electrical generator
- wind energy
- potential
- forecasting
- onshore
- offshore
- hybrid energy systems
- integration in the built environment
- design
- optimization
- innovation
- dynamics
- efficiency
- grid integration
- emerging technology
- operation
- control
- stability
- artificial intelligence
- fault detection
- power quality
- modeling
- conomics
- numerical simulations
- experimental testing
- reliability
- maintainance
- condition monitoring
- recycling
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