Powering Sustainable Development through Wind Energy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 1673
Special Issue Editors
Interests: large electric drives and power electronics; power electronics applications in hydropower plants; intelligent irrigation systems; marine electrification; cyber security for industrial control systems
Interests: high voltage applications; applications of non-thermal plasma such as diesel exhaust pollution control; surface decontamination; carbon capture; food processing and waste water treatment; plasma pyrolysis; small-scale power generation; hydro power plants and applications of machine learning techniques in electrical engineering
Special Issue Information
Sustainable development is a harmonious blend of socio-economic and environmental development.
There is an urgent need to connect the researchers working in the areas of electric power generation to make them work towards sustainable development. The finite resources that are being used in conventional power plants are gradually getting exhausted. The conventional power generation is also causing climate change followed by increasingly severe weather conditions. Sustainable development is possible by shifting to sustainable energy considering the environmental aspects such as greenhouse gas emissions, and social and economic aspects such as energy poverty. Most of the renewable energy sources are sustainable, except some biomass processes. Wind energy is one of the renewable energy sources. It is inexhaustible, competitive and causes zero emissions. From a technological perspective, wind power has evolved greatly, and their installation costs have significantly decreased. The cost of onshore wind turbines has decreased by 37% over the past decade. Further, on-site livestock and agricultural operations can coexist peacefully along with wind farms on the same land. The noise received at a distance of more than 500 meters due to the operation of a wind turbine is no greater than that produced by an electro-domestic appliances such as a fridge or microwave. However, there is still a lot of scope for research in the areas related to wind energy towards powering sustainable development. This special issue focuses on such areas.
Dear Colleagues,
Among the available renewable energy sources, wind energy is the most efficient technology to produce electricity in environmentally sustainable manner. It does not pollute, cannot run out, and reduces the dependence on fossil fuels, which are the origin of greenhouse gasses that cause global warming. For these reasons, producing electricity through wind energy and its efficient use contributes to sustainable development. However, there are concerns over the noise produced by the turbine blades, visual impacts to the landscape, their impact on local wildlife. There is scope for research in the areas such as forecasting the wind conditions, developments in wind turbine technology, control strategies for wind energy conversion, wind energy integration; and offshore deployment and economical operation. This special issue focuses on such areas and it is going to be a guide for new researchers working in the areas related to wind energy to get updated with the new developments.
Dr. Thanga Raj Chelliah
Dr. Srikanth Allamsetty
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prediction of wind energy
- wind turbine technology
- doubly-fed induction generators
- permanent magnet synchronous generators
- power electronic converters
- control strategies for wind energy conversion
- wind energy integration
- sub synchronous oscillation
- black start and grid forming techniques
- offshore wind turbines
