Advances in Small Wind Turbines

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that Energies is inviting submissions to a Special Issue on “Advances in Small Wind Turbines”. The worldwide “Green Deal” revolution increasingly favors the philosophy of distributed generation and its role in sustainable growth. As one of the key renewable energy sources, the wind turbine industry has responded to this call by increasing the role of domestic-scale machines. As horizontal- and vertical-axis wind turbines reduce their size, significant challenges arise. Low-Reynolds aerodynamics, efficient power transmission and conversion, robust control, noise generation, and economics are just several examples of the observed problems.

In the abovementioned spirit, Energies is organizing a Special Issue on the subject of small wind turbines. The topics available for discussion cover all stages of small wind turbine development and operation, starting from wind condition assessment, blade design, energy conversion system architecture, and choice of materials, through maintenance, contribution to hybrid systems, and the prosumer energy generation approach. The areas of interest for publication may include but are not limited to:

• Computational modeling
• Experimental testing
• Blade optimization, airfoil design
• Control systems, electronics
• Noise generation, noise reduction
• Structures/materials analysis
• Distributed generation
• Hybrid systems
• Energy storage
• Sustainability

Dr. Michał Kulak
Dr. Michał Lipian
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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