This web page contains links to reports and data which have been useful in constructing this website and in developing the computer programs available from it. The links are not intended to give a comprehensive cover of wind power issues but are concerned either with providing quantitative data on wind turbine performance or a technical report on some issue central to wind power. A simple star system is used to reflect our opinion of the reports and this includes a rating for widely quoted reports on important issues but which fail to fulfil their function.
| ∗∗∗∗ Very good report and/or useful data. | ∗∗∗Good report and/or some useful but limited data. |
| ∗∗Report of limited value and quality. | ∗Included as an example of how not to do it!. |
Papers on the 'natural' wind
Small-scale Wind Energy - Technical Report (UK Met Office) - 2008 ∗∗∗∗Comprehensive report on the natural wind and its interaction with the terrain and topography.Wind turbine test results
NREL Report on Gaia-Wind 11-kW Wind Turbine (December 2009) ∗∗∗∗NREL Report on Southest Windpower "Storm" (aka Skystream) Wind Turbine (August 2005) ∗∗∗
Skystream 3.7 UK MCS Certification Summary - (2008) ∗∗∗∗
Performance of large scale wind farms
North Hoyle Offshore Wind Farm - Capital Grant Scheme Annual Report for July 2004 to June 2005 ∗∗∗∗Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm - Capital Grant Scheme Annual Report for January 2006 to December 2006 ∗∗∗∗
Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm - Capital Grant Scheme Annual Report for January 2006 to December 2006 ∗∗∗∗
Performance of individual wind turbine installations
Proven 6 installation on Ashenden House apartment block, London (2008) ∗∗∗Quiet Revolution QR5 VAWT installation on Ashenden House apartment block, London (2009) ∗∗∗
National Engineering Laboratory test on a Proven 6 ∗∗∗
Reports on wind power planning or general policy.
Carbon Trust Small-Scale Wind Energy Report (2008) ∗∗Rather anodyne general report with poor referencing to other work.Wind turbine manufacturer's leaflets
ENERCONEnercon range from E-33 to E-82 with tabulated power curves
EVANCE
Evance R9000
GAIA-WIND
Gaia-Wind 11kW
GAMESA
Gamesa G52 850kW
Gamesa G58 850kW
Gamesa G80 2mW
Gamesa G83 2mW
Gamesa G87 2mW
Gamesa G90 2mW
GENERAL ELECTRIC
NORDEX
Nordex N90/2500
PROVEN
Proven 7
Proven 11
Proven 35-2
SIEMENS
SOUTHWEST WINDPOWER
Skystream 3.7 2.4kW
VESTAS
Vestas V52 850kW
Vesta V82m 1.65mW
WIND ENERGY SOLUTIONS
WES 18m 80kW
WES 30m 250kW
