Wind Power for the World tells an exciting tell of hope and promise—how a small band of activists, dreamers, and entrepreneurs built one of the world’s fastest growing and dynamic industries. It’s a must read for anyone who wants to understand how we got to where are today.
I really can’t do the book justice. It has chapters by the greats of wind energy, including Preben Maegaard, Benny Christensen, Jos Beurskens, Niels Meyer, Erik Grove-Nielsen, Henrik Stiesdal, Jim Manwell and many others. If you work in the field of wind energy and you don’t know these names, then this book is a must for understanding how modern wind turbines work the way they do.
The best I can say is that I relied heavily on this book for my own summary of the history of modern wind energy in my Wind Energy for the Rest of Us (available late 2016).
Maegaard, Preben. Krenz, Anna. Palz, Wolfgang. Eds. Wind Power for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy. Singapore; Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013. 676 pages. ISBN-10: 9814364932, ebook: ISBN-13: 978-9814364935, 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches.
Chapter 1: The Wind Power Story
Ross Jackson
Chapter 2: Forty Years of Wind Energy Development
Jos Beurskens
Chapter 3: History of Danish Wind Power
Benny Christensen
Capter 4: The Aerodynamic Research on Windmill Sails of Poul la Cour, 1896–1900
Povl-Otto Nissen
Chapter 5: Networks of Wind Energy Enthusiasts and the Development of the “Danish Concept”
Katherine Dykes
Chapter 6: Danish Pioneering of Modern Wind Power
Niels I. Meyer
Chapter 7: From Energy Crisis to Industrial Adventure: A Chronicle
Preben Maegaard
Chapter 8: Økær Vind Energi—Standard Blades for the Early Wind Industry
Erik Grove-Nielsen
Chapter 9: From Herborg Blacksmith to Vestas
Henrik Stiesdal
Chapter 10: From Danregn to Bonus
Egon Kristensen
Chapter 11: Vind-Syssel 1985–1990
Flemming Østergaard
Chapter 12: The Story of Dencon
Bent Gregersen
Chapter 13: Water Brake Windmills
Jørgen Krogsgaard
Chapter 14: Cooperative Energy Movement in Copenhagen
Jens Larsen
Chapter 15: The Danish Small Wind Power
Jane Kruse
Chapter 16: Consigned to Oblivion
Preben Maegaard
Chapter 17: Hütter’s Heritage: The Stuttgart School
Bernward Janzing and Jan Oelker
Chapter 18: Overview of German Wind Industry Roots
Arne Jaeger
Chapter 19: Direct Drive Wind Turbines
Friedrich Klinger
Chapter 20: How the Early 1980s Micro- and Power-Electronics Innovation in Germany Revolutionised Wind Energy Systems
Jürgen Sachau
Chapter 21: How the Electricity Feed-In Law (Stromeinspeisungsgesetz) Came to Be Passed by the German Parliament, Enabling Renewable Energies to Establish Their Position in the Market
Ulrich Jochimsen
Chapter 22: Wind, Women, Art, Acceptance
Brigitte Schmidt
Chapter 23: California: Wind Farms Retrospective
Arne Jaeger
Chapter 24: Emergence of Wind Energy: The University of Massachusetts
James F. Manwell
Chapter 25: An American Personal Perspective
Steven B. Smiley and Susan J. Kopka
Chapter 26: Residential Wind by Way of Illustration
Igor Avkshtol
Chapter 27: Wind Power in China: Chasing a Dream that Creates Value
Qin Haiyan
Chapter 28: Rising Wind Power Industry of XEMC
Zhou Jianxiong
